18 Malicious npm Packages Deliver Cross-Platform RAT to Alibaba Tool Users

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Originele bron: The Hacker News

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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new set of malicious npm packages that target users of Alibaba developer tools with a cross-platform remote access trojan (RAT) as part of a sophisticated, targeted software supply chain attack targeting Chinese-speaking environments. One of the packages in question is “lib-mtop,” an unscoped package with the same name as a private Alibaba package

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