Article 43R7Y Check your repos... Crypto-coin-stealing code sneaks into fairly popular NPM lib (2m downloads per week)

Check your repos... Crypto-coin-stealing code sneaks into fairly popular NPM lib (2m downloads per week)

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Story ImageNode.js package tried to plunder Bitcoin wallets

A widely used Node.js code library listed in NPM's warehouse of repositories was altered to include crypto-coin-stealing malware. The lib in question, event-stream, is downloaded roughly two million times a week by application programmers."

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