Malicious code in @lodash-js/lodash-js (npm)

Source: amazon-inspector 03e8f6925f88772bdb738b691a200f670aebecaef33c066a379d9424c7910a5a The package is published under a name mimicking lodash but its manifest's main entry is dist/xelis-miner.browser.js, a Xelis Stratum cryptocurrency miner bundle with an embedded 35 KB WebAssembly xelis-hash ...

Malicious code in @lodash-js/lodash-js (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 03e8f6925f88772bdb738b691a200f670aebecaef33c066a379d9424c7910a5a The package is published under a name mimicking lodash but its manifest's main entry is dist/xelis-miner.browser.js, a Xelis Stratum cryptocurrency...

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