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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.
A ruby gem that acts as a mesh-chat client.
gem install spiced_rumby
$ irb
require 'spiced_rumby'
SpicedRumby.start
Or, if you just download the zip / clone the repo:
bundle install # to install ruby dependencies
./run
meshchat - the core of mesh chat communication / basic functionality libnotify - for notifications on unix systems.
For sending messages
sudo apt-get install libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls libcurl4-openssl-dev
See the ruby curl bindings installation for non Ubuntu OSes.
For encryption and RSA key generation
sudo apt-get install openssl
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We found that spiced_rumby 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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