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Data Theft Repackaged: A Case Study in Malicious Wrapper Packages on npm
The Socket Research Team breaks down a malicious wrapper package that uses obfuscation to harvest credentials and exfiltrate sensitive data.
> A extremely simple fetch extension inspired by [sindresorhus/ky](https://github.com/sindresorhus/ky).
A extremely simple fetch extension inspired by sindresorhus/ky.
// get with query string
xf('https://postman-echo.com/get/', { qs: { foo: 'bar' } })
.json()
.then(console.log)
// post form
xf.post('https://postman-echo.com/post', { form: { foo: 'bar' } })
.json()
.then(console.log)
// post json
xf.post('https://postman-echo.com/post', { json: { foo: 'bar' } })
.json()
.then(console.log)
const xf = require('xfetch-js').createXFetch(require('node-fetch'))
xf('https://postman-echo.com/get/', { qs: { foo: 'bar' } })
.json()
.then(console.log)
FAQs
> A extremely simple fetch extension for modern browsers inspired by [sindresorhus/ky](https://github.com/sindresorhus/ky). > > Which aims to be as small as possible and easy to use.
The npm package xfetch-js receives a total of 225 weekly downloads. As such, xfetch-js popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that xfetch-js 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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