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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.
eiows is a replacement module for ws which allows, but doesn't guarantee, significant performance and memory-usage improvements. This module is specifically only compatible with Node.js. This package is mainly meant for projects which depend on the performance of the “original uws package”. This package requires engine.io(3.4.2 or higher) and it should work on Node 16, 18, 20, 22. Git should be installed on the system to build and compile the module. This module only runs on Linux/FreeBSD/MacOS.
Installation:
npm install eiows
or
yarn add eiows
Examples:
// ESM
import * as http from 'http';
import { Server } from "socket.io";
import eiows from 'eiows';
let server = http.createServer();
let io = new Server(server, {
wsEngine: eiows.Server,
perMessageDeflate: {
threshold: 32768
}
});
io.on("connection", () => {
console.log('Yes, you did it!');
});
server.listen(8080);
// CJS
var http = require('http');
var server = http.createServer();
var io = require("socket.io")(server, {
wsEngine: require("eiows").Server,
perMessageDeflate: {
threshold: 32768
}
});
io.on("connection", function(socket) {
console.log('Yes, you did it!');
});
server.listen(8080);
Have fun!
FAQs
custom fork of uWebSockets 0.14
The npm package eiows receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, eiows popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that eiows demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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