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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.
This is a lightweight wrap up of node_pcap, which recording data transfer per port, and a http api for access the data.
###Usage
Install
npm i pcappp -g
Listen on device lo0, and filter the package to a port range [8080,8081]. Serve the data at 1.2.3.4:6334
sudo pcappp -b 1.2.3.4 -p 6334 -i lo0 dst portrange 8080-8081
Access the data
curl http://localhost:6334/8080/127.0.0.1
{
"date": 1424919851117,
"bytes": 141
}
###Note
FAQs
Packet capture per port
The npm package pcappp receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, pcappp popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that pcappp 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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