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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.
import {
createDebounced,
createThrottled,
throttledWithLast,
chainPromises,
chainRequestAnimationFrame,
doNTimes,
chainPromiseNTimes,
timeFunction,
timePromise,
memoizeAsStrings,
createTemplateTag,
bytesLengthFromString,
} from "utilsac";
import {
deepCopy,
deepCopyAdded,
deepAssign,
deepAssignAdded,
deepEqual,
deepEqualAdded,
deepDifference,
} from "utilsac/deep.js";
const personA = { email: 'example@email.com', name: { firstname: 'James', lastname: 'William' }};
const personB = { email: 'example@email.com', name: { firstname: 'James', lastname: 'William' }};
deepEqual(personA, personB); // true
import {
stringFromArrayBuffer,
arrayBufferFromBlob,
stringFromBlob,
stringFromArray,
setFromArray,
mapFromObject,
} from "utilsac/typeCast.js";
import { evalGlobal } from "utilsac/evalGlobal.js";
evalGlobal(`window.x = 2 ** 10`);
After the Promise is resolved the code has executed in global scope.
evalGlobal(`
import sin form "./x.js";
window.x = sin(Math.PI)
`, `module`);
Use optional second argument with module
to be able to use static imports
import { downloadBlob } from "utilsac/blobs.js";
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The npm package utilsac receives a total of 3 weekly downloads. As such, utilsac popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that utilsac 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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