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Kill Switch Hidden in npm Packages Typosquatting Chalk and Chokidar
Socket researchers found several malicious npm packages typosquatting Chalk and Chokidar, targeting Node.js developers with kill switches and data theft.
Purpose is to make sure some dependencies (especially gitrepo's (master)) are always fresh. It does this by:
To uilize bowerfresh add the sofresh property. See this bower file. Then in your buidl routine (package.json or something), do a preinstall and run bowerfresh.
bower.json (add to)
"sofresh": [
"dep1",
"dep2"
]
preinstall in package.json as an example
"scripts": {
"preinstall": "bowerfresh",
},
FAQs
keep bower dependencies fresh
The npm package bowerfresh receives a total of 2 weekly downloads. As such, bowerfresh popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that bowerfresh demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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