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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 'Hitchhiker's Guide' -themed command line interface with a dashboard (location, weather, and randomly generated Douglas Adams quote) that the user can view in a variety of intergalactic languages.
Uses the Dogeify, Igpay Atinlay, Talk Like A Pirate, Ermahgerd, Nokogiri, Geocoder and RestClient gems, and the OpenWeatherMap API.
While the dashboard comes supplied with sample content, we provide a very basic emoji language so that even the emoji option supports dynamic content!
In v2.0 we hope to include Vogon.
You'll need to obtain your own API key from Open Weather -- it's easy and free -- and put it in your own key.rb file in the root directory. The file will look like
WEATHER_KEY = "yourAPIkeyhere"
Then when you install the gem, you can run it from the command line by typing "galaxy_guide".
That's it!
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We found that galaxy_guide demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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