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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.
Yes, staring at your console while github's down is definitely time well spent. Oh, and it works with other site too!
$ npm i -g down
Don't hesistate to fork/issues/bugreport/pull request.
$ down gh
UP [github] Everything operating normally.
UP [github] Everything operating normally.
...
or
$ down hv
UP [harvest] last response time: 609
UP [harvest] last response time: 609
...
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Yes, staring at your console while github's down is definitely time well spent. Oh, and it works with other site too!
The npm package down receives a total of 21 weekly downloads. As such, down popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that down 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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