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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.
Keeping track of your redundantly-named 'file' files. Why are they all called 'file'? I don't know but now you can keep track of them!
Using this method, you can include filefile such that it runs as part of a script (such as a build script).
npm install --save-dev filefile
Then in your js file:
require('filefile');
filefile will run automatically (nothing to call).
npm install --global filefile
filefile
filefile takes inspiration from the idea of Filefile.
FAQs
Create a handy list of redundantly-named file-files
The npm package filefile receives a total of 1 weekly downloads. As such, filefile popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that filefile 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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