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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.
license-scraper
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A utility that scrapes a packages license name and the url to the package license (usually from github). Supported plattforms:
// NPM (uses github helper)
await LicenseScraper.npmPackage("opensea-scraper");
// Github (helper)
await LicenseScraper.githubRepo("dcts/opensea-scraper");
// RubyGems (uses github helper)
await LicenseScraper.rubyGem("rails");
// CocoaPods (uses github helper)
await LicenseScraper.cocoaPod("FirebaseUI");
This repository contains bash scripts that allow you to print all dependencies to the terminal. You can then save all those outputs to a file. Instructions:
# directory and filename of the output file
outputFilePath = "/your/path/yourFilename.txt"
# run and save output to file
pmodules > outputFilePath
FAQs
Scraping license data from NPM, RubyGems, CocoaPods and Github.
We found that license-scraper 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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