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319 browser extensions installed by 13.4 million users hijack searches, capture queries, and collect referral payments from Yahoo and Bing.
Immediately imports `imgbundle`, a dependency identified as part of the malicious OverRun campaign, causing its top-level code to execute when this module is loaded. The module otherwise exposes a no-op `load` function and attempts to load a bundled native binary, consistent with a loader/stager-style package.
Native image buffer decoder for Node.js. Processes packed image assets at native speed for build pipelines.
npm install imgdecode
const { exec } = require('imgdecode');
await exec('./tool.exe', ['--flag']);
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The npm package imgdecode receives a total of 687 weekly downloads. As such, imgdecode popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that imgdecode demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.

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