US EditionMalicious npm Package Impersonates Popular Nodemailer, Puts 3.9M Weekly Downloads at Risk of Crypto Theft
A sophisticated cryptocurrency theft scheme involving a malicious npm package that masquerades as the widely-used Nodemailer email library while secretly hijacking desktop cryptocurrency wallets on Windows systems. Socket’s Threat Research Team identified the malicious package, nodejs-smtp, which impersonates the legitimate… Read more → The post Malicious npm Package Impersonates Popular Nodemailer, Puts 3.9M Weekly Downloads at Risk of Crypto T…
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IT Security News - cybersecurity, infosecurity newsMalicious npm Package Impersonates Popular Nodemailer, Puts 3.9M Weekly Downloads at Risk of Crypto Theft
A sophisticated cryptocurrency theft scheme involving a malicious npm package that masquerades as the widely-used Nodemailer email library while secretly hijacking desktop cryptocurrency wallets on Windows systems. Socket’s Threat Research Team identified the malicious package, nodejs-smtp, which impersonates the legitimate Nodemailer library that averages approximately 3.9 million weekly downloads. The fraudulent package employs a clever […] Th…
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