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CanisterWorm: npm Publisher Compromise Deploys Backdoor Across 29+ Packages
The worm-enabled campaign hit @emilgroup and @teale.io, then used an ICP canister to deliver follow-on payloads.
Affected versions:
A complete and compact Ethereum library, for dapps, wallets and any other tools.
A complete, compact and simple library for Ethereum and ilk, written in TypeScript.
Features
For advisories and important notices, follow @ethersproject on Twitter (low-traffic, non-marketing, important information only) as well as watch this GitHub project.
For more general news, discussions, and feedback, follow or DM me, @ricmoo on Twitter or on the Ethers Discord.
For the latest changes, see the CHANGELOG.
Summaries
NodeJS
/home/ricmoo/some_project> npm install ethers
Browser (ESM)
The bundled library is available in the ./dist/ folder in this repo.
<script type="module">
import { ethers } from "./dist/ethers.min.js";
</script>
Browse the documentation online:
Ethers works closely with an ever-growing list of third-party providers to ensure getting started is quick and easy, by providing default keys to each service.
These built-in keys mean you can use ethers.getDefaultProvider() and
start developing right away.
However, the API keys provided to ethers are also shared and are intentionally throttled to encourage developers to eventually get their own keys, which unlock many other features, such as faster responses, more capacity, analytics and other features like archival data.
When you are ready to sign up and start using for your own keys, please check out the Provider API Keys in the documentation.
A special thanks to these services for providing community resources:
The ethers package only includes the most common and most core
functionality to interact with Ethereum. There are many other
packages designed to further enhance the functionality and experience.
call to reduce latency and backend request capacityMIT License (including all dependencies).
FAQs
security holding package
The npm package ethres receives a total of 1 weekly downloads. As such, ethres popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that ethres 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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