Application testing company Checkmarx has warned developers to be on the lookout for malicious NPM packages, after discovering a new attack that employs typosquatting to impersonate two popular packages.
Part of a much larger campaign against NPM, in a new twist, the malicious package eschews traditional command & control (C2) by using the Ethereum blockchain to hold the addresses of its malicious payloads.
Go to Source
Author:
