Malicious Package

Overview date-format-utils-xz is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code, and its content was removed from the official package manager. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid organization, there is no connection between that organization and this package...

MAL-2026-11001 Malicious code in date-format-utils-xz (npm)

The npm package date-format-utils-xz masquerades as a date-formatting utility but is malicious. Its own decoy index.js is prefaced with a Chinese comment translating to "disguised as a normal date formatting tool." Every published version 1.0.0-1.0.4 declares a postinstall lifecycle hook...

Malicious code in date-format-utils-xz (npm)

The npm package date-format-utils-xz masquerades as a date-formatting utility but is malicious. Its own decoy index.js is prefaced with a Chinese comment translating to "disguised as a normal date formatting tool." Every published version 1.0.0-1.0.4 declares a postinstall lifecycle hook...