MAL-2025-67437 Malicious code in contemporary-purple-fox (npm)

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EUVD-2025-55212

Malicious code in contemporary-purple-fox npm...

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CVE-2021-26411

Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability Recent assessments: ccondon-r7 at April 05, 2021 1:20pm UTC reported: There is now public threat intelligence that the Purple Fox exploit kit has incorporated this vulnerability and is exploiting it. gwillcox-r7 at March 11, 2021 5:57pm UTC...