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Namastex.ai npm Packages Hit with TeamPCP-Style CanisterWorm Malware
Malicious Namastex.ai npm packages appear to replicate TeamPCP-style Canister Worm tradecraft, including exfiltration and self-propagation.
A simple caching id generation utility.
import { Ids } from 'ids';
const ids = new Ids();
const next = ids.next(); // returns id
ids.claim('f71a81'); // claim id as already existing
ids.assigned('f71a81'); // true if id was already generated / claimed
Fetch it via npm:
npm install --save ids
Use under the terms of the MIT license.
FAQs
Simple id generation and caching
The npm package ids receives a total of 161,530 weekly downloads. As such, ids popularity was classified as popular.
We found that ids demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 13 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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