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MALICIOUS NPM PACKAGES EXFILTRATED HUNDREDS OF DEVELOPER SSH KEYS VIA GITHUB

thehackernews.com2 min read

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Two malicious npm modules, warbeast2000 and kodiak2k, were found to have garnered over 1500 downloads on npm before being removed. The malicious packages ran a post-install script that searched for SSH keys and then uploaded them to a GitHub repository.