Malware in vortnode

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...

Malicious Package

Overview vortnode 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 authorship...

Malicious code in vortnode (npm)

Source: amazon-inspector 43b7aa0683f0462d98c9ab789942e329e1298af3f85c0bd3a9b3761f5aebf8fb On npm install, the preinstall hook node lib/setup.js runs on Windows and invokes lib/worker.js, which downloads an executable to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Temp or %TEMP% under Microsoft-update cover names msedgeupdate...

MAL-2026-5884 Malicious code in vortnode (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 43b7aa0683f0462d98c9ab789942e329e1298af3f85c0bd3a9b3761f5aebf8fb On npm install, the preinstall hook node lib/setup.js runs on Windows and invokes lib/worker.js, which downloads an executable to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Temp...

Malicious code in vortnode (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 43b7aa0683f0462d98c9ab789942e329e1298af3f85c0bd3a9b3761f5aebf8fb On npm install, the preinstall hook node lib/setup.js runs on Windows and invokes lib/worker.js, which downloads an executable to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Temp...