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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.
Install this
$ npm install lib
to replace this
var fs = require('fs'),
util = require('util'),
http = require('http'),
path = require('path'),
mymodule = require('./mymodule'),
mymodule2 = require('./mymodule2'),
foo = require('./foo');
with this
var lib = require('lib')('mymodule','mymodule2','foo');
Node natives as well as the specified modules are added to the lib
object as enumerable properties and loaded on first use.
lib.util.print('Wow!');
There is no performance overhead, no namespace conflicts, and your code stays nice and compact.
Credit to kof and his node-natives module. This is MIT licensed.
FAQs
Autocode standard library Node.js bindings
The npm package lib receives a total of 105,398 weekly downloads. As such, lib popularity was classified as popular.
We found that lib demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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