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The most alarming evolution in this variant is its aggressive volatility. While the primary goal remains credential theft, the malware includes a destructive fail-safe that triggers if it cannot establish persistence or exfiltrate data.
Certainly as escalation compared to what you normally see in NPM attacks.
The NPM ecosystem has been ripe for this kind of invasion over a decade. And I don’t want to make generalizations or throw shade at a whole class of people, but over the years I have met a lot of very complacent, very naive about security Node devs (some of whom have gotten very frustrated with me for raising concerns about the ecosystem being a ticking time bomb).
I’ve been expecting something like this for years.
