On October 27, Phylum’s automated risk detection platform began alerting us to a series of suspicious publications on npm. Over the course of the following few days, we discovered a campaign involving at least 48 different publications. These packages, deceptively named to appear legitimate, contained obfuscated JavaScript designed to
Developers in the cryptocurrency sphere are being targeted once again, as yet another threat actor has been exposed. This user has been publishing malicious NPM packages with the purpose of exfiltrating sensitive data such as source code and configuration files from the victim’s machines. The threat actor behind this campaign has been linked to malicious activity dating back to 2021. Since then, they have continuously published malicious code.
In what's an act of deliberate sabotage, the developer behind the popular "node-ipc" NPM package shipped a new tampered version to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine, raising concerns about security in the open-source and the software supply chain.