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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.
This is a cross-platform, 100% ES6 implementation of the Unix cat
command.
npm install cash-cat -g
This will install cat
globally in your system path.
For help on the command, type:
> cat --help
This module is part of Cash, a project providing cross-platform implementations of all major Unix-based commands in pure Javascript.
MIT © David Caccavella
FAQs
Cross-platform implementation of the Unix 'cat' command.
The npm package cash-cat receives a total of 18 weekly downloads. As such, cash-cat popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that cash-cat 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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