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Data Theft Repackaged: A Case Study in Malicious Wrapper Packages on npm
The Socket Research Team breaks down a malicious wrapper package that uses obfuscation to harvest credentials and exfiltrate sensitive data.
cache-swap
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A lightweight file swap cache backed by temp files.
var swap = new CacheSwap({
cacheDirName: "HoganizeSwap"
}),
processTemplate = function(template, done) {
var templateStr = template.content,
templatePath = template.path,
templateHash = files.shaIt(templateStr);
swap.getCached("hoganize", templateHash, function(err, cached) {
if(err) {
return done(err);
}
var yeahbrotha,
stringed;
if(cached) {
yeahbrotha = cached.contents;
try {
addToHoganized(yeahbrotha, templatePath);
} catch(e){
return done(e);
}
done();
} else {
yeahbrotha = self._compileTemplate(templateStr, templatePath);
// Add the compiled template to the cache swap for next time.
swap.addCached("hoganize", templateHash, yeahbrotha, function(err) {
if(err) {
return done(err);
}
try {
addToHoganized(yeahbrotha, templatePath);
} catch(e) {
return done(e);
}
done();
});
}
});
};
Licensed under the MIT License, Copyright 2013-2015 Jacob Gable
FAQs
A simple temp file based swap for speeding up operations
The npm package cache-swap receives a total of 22,405 weekly downloads. As such, cache-swap popularity was classified as popular.
We found that cache-swap demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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