> We found a remote access implant hidden inside [email protected], an npm package that copies the popular mathjs library.
The NPM package not named in the clickbait-y post title is “[email protected]”, for those who run into this particular site obstacle.
Safedep, if you’re reading this, perhaps you should reconsider having that site feature applied to your post — or if it’s something you enabled in, say, Cloudflare, perhaps file a support ticket noting that their email protection is hiding package version strings.
Why in the world would that specific 3x3 matrix be a trigger for an attack? Are they trying to find someone doing some particular kind of numerical analysis?
Presumably it's so it can be used as a subdependency for setting up an attack in a popular, legitimate package, e.g. via a pull request. The code in the legitimate package would not arouse suspicion at all.
Does the FBI or any other law-enforcement office follow up on these backdoors? Is this considered a crime, or even conspiracy to commit a crime, or is it only the act of using the backdoor that's a crime?
My strategy of not using dependencies at all seems to be getting stronger everyday.
Also no LLM generated skipping this hypetrain completely. Just hand written code I can personally vouch for. Code in exchange for cash, this is professional business, Boss.
Btw, I'm available for hire, preferably by Pre Market Fit or pre-MVP startups, email in profile.
The NPM package not named in the clickbait-y post title is “[email protected]”, for those who run into this particular site obstacle.
Safedep, if you’re reading this, perhaps you should reconsider having that site feature applied to your post — or if it’s something you enabled in, say, Cloudflare, perhaps file a support ticket noting that their email protection is hiding package version strings.
I can also see that it's still up in NPM without any warning of any kind: - https://www.npmjs.com/package/mathmain
But the Github repo for the package and the author are down: - https://github.com/allendev12 - https://github.com/allendev12/mathmain
Also no LLM generated skipping this hypetrain completely. Just hand written code I can personally vouch for. Code in exchange for cash, this is professional business, Boss.
Btw, I'm available for hire, preferably by Pre Market Fit or pre-MVP startups, email in profile.