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Kill Switch Hidden in npm Packages Typosquatting Chalk and Chokidar
Socket researchers found several malicious npm packages typosquatting Chalk and Chokidar, targeting Node.js developers with kill switches and data theft.
unexpected-messy
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Plugin for Unexpected that adds the ability to inspect and match instances of the HttpRequest, HttpResponse, HttpExchange, HttpConversation, Mail, and Message classes from the Messy library. It's originally built for unexpected-express, unexpected-mitm and unexpected-http, but can also be used standalone.
Unexpected-messy is licensed under a standard 3-clause BSD license
-- see the LICENSE
file for details.
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Unexpected plugin for the messy library
The npm package unexpected-messy receives a total of 9,959 weekly downloads. As such, unexpected-messy popularity was classified as popular.
We found that unexpected-messy demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 6 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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