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Kill Switch Hidden in npm Packages Typosquatting Chalk and Chokidar
Socket researchers found several malicious npm packages typosquatting Chalk and Chokidar, targeting Node.js developers with kill switches and data theft.
Affects all major engines, aside Firefox, in which it's not adjustable and hardcoded to 128.
Affects all V8 based engines (so Chrome and Node.js) and Microsoft Edge
In other engines it is recommended to rely on some Promise
polyfill, which ensures unhandled rejections are being communicated with unhandledrejection
events on global object.
npm install essentials
At top of main (entry) module simply require
require("essentials");
FAQs
Essential initialization for every JavaScript process
The npm package essentials receives a total of 627,197 weekly downloads. As such, essentials popularity was classified as popular.
We found that essentials 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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