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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.
This is Linux only as D-BUS does not work on Mac.
You must have the following system packages installed
vlc
(to play videos)imagemagick
(to take screenshots)wmctrl
(to determine window name)Install system requirements for dbus-python
package
::
% sudo apt-get install -y pkg-config libdbus-1-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev
Install with pip
::
% pip3 install vlc-helper
The vlc-repl
and myvlc
scripts are provided
::
% venv/bin/vlc-repl --help Usage: vlc-repl [OPTIONS]
Start a REPL to control VLC media player
Options: --help Show this message and exit.
% venv/bin/myvlc --help Usage: myvlc [OPTIONS] [FILENAME] [STARTTIME] [STOPTIME]
Start filename at specific start time (and/or end at specific end time)
Options: --help Show this message and exit.
FAQs
CLI helpers for VLC media player
We found that vlc-helper 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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