Threat Actors Abuse npm Developer Accounts Hijacked to Spread Malicious Packages

Threat Score:
75
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5 hours ago

Overview

Threat Actors Abuse npm Developer Accounts Hijacked to Spread Malicious Packages A sophisticated phishing campaign targeting the maintainer of eslint-config-prettier, a widely-used npm package with over 3.5 billion downloads, resulted in malicious code being distributed to thousands of developer projects worldwide. The incident, discovered on July 18 by ReversingLabs’ automatedthreat detectionsystem, highlights critical vulnerabilities in modern software development practices, particularly the r...

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