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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.
rpc using protobuf and websocket protocal
npm i wsgrpc
npx wsgrpc $src_file.proto $dist_file.proto.generated.ts
$src_file.proto: src proto file $dist_file.proto.generated.ts: target ts file
see example file: "test/test.ts"
protobuf suport:
FAQs
A RPC code generator and runtime. Codes of client side and server side are generated from a grpc proto file.
The npm package wsgrpc receives a total of 160 weekly downloads. As such, wsgrpc popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that wsgrpc 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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