NPM Package Masquerading as Email Validator Contains C2 and Sophisticated Data Exfiltration
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On the morning of August 24, Phylum's automated risk detection system identified a suspicious package published to npm called “emails-helper." A deeper investigation revealed that this package was part of an intricate attack involving Base64-encoded and encrypted binaries. The scheme fetches encryption keys from a DNS TXT record hosted on

Fake Email Validation NPM Package Contains C2 and Sophisticated Data Exfiltration::On the morning of August 24, Phylum’s automated risk detection system identified a suspicious package published to npm called “emails-helper." A deeper investigation revealed that this package was part of an intricate attack involving Base64-encoded and encrypted binaries. The scheme fetches encryption keys from a DNS TXT record hosted on