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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.
This package hosts code required to run the colab notebooks which host the course assignemnts.
The package is separated into submodules "ps1","ps2".. which respectively host the code for each problem set. The main reasons this package was created were hiding unnecessary complexity from the students and enabling us to perform automating testing, grading and task aids while discouraging cheating. Cheating is still possible by installing the package and reverse engineering the functions but the effort would be better spent on solving the task.
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This package hosts code required to run the colab notebooks which host the course assignemnts.
We found that cm-course-uos demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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