Typosquatted npm packages used to steal cloud and CI/CD secrets

In this article 1. Attack chain overview 1. The lure: typosquats and spoofed metadata 2. Execution: npm lifecycle hook abuse 3. Gen-1 stager: HTTP C2 beacon and payload drop 4. Gen-2 stager: abusing the legitimate Bun runtime as a loader 5. Credential theft 6. Impact and blast radius 2. Mitigatio...

Typosquatted npm packages used to steal cloud and CI/CD secrets

In this article 1. Attack chain overview 1. The lure: typosquats and spoofed metadata 2. Execution: npm lifecycle hook abuse 3. Gen-1 stager: HTTP C2 beacon and payload drop 4. Gen-2 stager: abusing the legitimate Bun runtime as a loader 5. Credential theft 6. Impact and blast radius 2. Mitigatio...

MAL-2026-3766 Malicious code in nock-helper (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector d1070514eba7a5f0fedc2760db7710399d38e070d98dc99910d3b49923959820 The package declares scripts.postinstall: node postinstall.js, which runs automatically on npm install. The script is an explicit credential harveste...

Malicious code in cheerio-tool (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 2d51a2885f4eaff732d1ef7ab065b04d21c59263b1212d5b92b92c87914ef879 cheerio-tool typosquats the popular cheerio HTML parser README claims 'Cheerio Tool utility helpers', keywords are 'lodash','utilities', and index.js...

Malicious code in chalk-pack (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 3e6eab5e9e696250cc719b36e144f4534cac2b38a25521cda80222b6c66cd64c Package is named chalk-pack impersonating chalk with keywords and index.js impersonating lodash; index.js is a stub that self-describes as 'Just a...

MAL-2026-3754 Malicious code in chalk-pack (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 3e6eab5e9e696250cc719b36e144f4534cac2b38a25521cda80222b6c66cd64c Package is named chalk-pack impersonating chalk with keywords and index.js impersonating lodash; index.js is a stub that self-describes as 'Just a...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-finseven is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages aren...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-nordica-tools is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-debug-tools is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-health-check is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-cms-tools is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-content-sync is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-nordica-lite is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-nordica-deep is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-form is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages aren't...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-sitemap-gen is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-health is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages aren't...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-events is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages aren't...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-config is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages aren't...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-server is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages aren't...