Malicious Package

Overview random-certs 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...

Malware in random-certs

Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outsid...

MAL-2026-17644 Malicious code in random-certs (npm)

[email protected] was published to npm on 2026-10-07 04:22 UTC by user weindeste. It presents itself as a generator of random self-signed certificates, but sample/cert.pem holds base64-encoded JavaScript between the PEM markers instead of a certificate. index.js lines 41-52 reads that file, stri...

Malicious code in random-certs (npm)

[email protected] was published to npm on 2026-10-07 04:22 UTC by user weindeste. It presents itself as a generator of random self-signed certificates, but sample/cert.pem holds base64-encoded JavaScript between the PEM markers instead of a certificate. index.js lines 41-52 reads that file, stri...