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10 npm Typosquatted Packages Deploy Multi-Stage Credential Harvester
Socket researchers found 10 typosquatted npm packages that auto-run on install, show fake CAPTCHAs, fingerprint by IP, and deploy a credential stealer.
selenium-ide
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This is an electron app instrumenting the electron-chromedriver package to run a chromedriver instance on the Electron browser.
There are three regions to the code:
Main: The electron process, where the NodeJS backend handles the system ops:
Browser: The renderering code for the electron browser windows.
API: The imported side-api package. This contains common code used by the main and browser segments.
This is separated out to make importing types for plugins not require the entire dependency tree of selenium-ide, which involves electron and react and is quite extensive.
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Selenium IDE electron app
The npm package selenium-ide receives a total of 639 weekly downloads. As such, selenium-ide popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that selenium-ide 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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