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Malicious npm Packages Inject SSH Backdoors via Typosquatted Libraries
Socket’s threat research team has detected six malicious npm packages typosquatting popular libraries to insert SSH backdoors.
use bittorrent with fetch, includes BEP 46 support
supports infohash and pubkeys
examples
GET get a torrent, if torrent is not already in the map, then uses webtorrent.add to add the torrent bt://_ body: empty
bt://infohash bt://pubkey bt://infohash/path/to/file.html bt://pubkey/path/to/file.html
PUT seed a torrent title is a md5 hash for the name of the directory being seeded(non-BEP 46) bt://_ body: folder(required), address(required for BEP 46, optional for non-BEP 46), secret(required for BEP 46, optional for non-BEP 46)
bt://title bt://pubkey
DELETE stop or remove a torrent bt://_ body: infohash(required for non-BEP 46), address(required for BEP 46)
bt://infohash bt://pubkey
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FAQs
use bittorrent with fetch, includes BEP 46 support
The npm package btp-fetch receives a total of 4 weekly downloads. As such, btp-fetch popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that btp-fetch 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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