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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.
Do things to all your github repositories.
$ git clone git@github.com:bleonard/metahub.git
$ cd metahub
$ bundle install
$ bundle exec ./bin/metahub backup
Github Username: bleonard
Github Password: ***********
assaf/vanity...
git clone git@github.com:assaf/vanity.git /Users/brian/bleonard/metahub/2014.3.10/assaf/vanity
Cloning into '/Users/brian/bleonard/metahub/2014.3.10/assaf/vanity'...
remote: Reusing existing pack: 4550, done.
remote: Total 4550 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (4550/4550), 2.87 MiB | 86.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (2049/2049), done.
Checking connectivity... done
...done!
bleonard/actionHero...
git clone git@github.com:bleonard/actionHero.git /Users/brian/bleonard/metahub/2014.3.10/bleonard/actionHero
Cloning into '/Users/brian/bleonard/metahub/2014.3.10/bleonard/actionHero'...
remote: Counting objects: 3360, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1868/1868), done.
... lots of those
$ bundle exec ./bin/metahub repositories
Github Username: bleonard
Github Password: ***********
assaf/vanity
bleonard/actionHero
bleonard/blackbook
bleonard/bleonard.github.com
bleonard/bootstrap
... lots of those
FAQs
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We found that metahub 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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