Popular npm Project Used by Millions Hijacked in Supply-Chain Attack

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Last week, Sonatype reported our discovery of three malicious npm cryptomining packages on npm: klow, klown, and okhsa. These packages, which infiltrated the npm registry between October 12th and 15th, installed Monero miners on Windows, macOS, and Linux machines. Interestingly, at least one of these packages was seen impersonating a popular, legitimate library called “ua-parser-js.”

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