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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.
node.js:
npm install timezones
browser:
component install viatropos/timezone
var timezone = require('timezone');
var a = new Date('2013-12-02 PST');
var b = timezone('cst', a);
assert(a < b);
assert(b.getHours() == a.getHours() + 2);
For a more robust timezone library (which are also much larger codebases), try:
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## Installation
The npm package timezones receives a total of 27 weekly downloads. As such, timezones popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that timezones 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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