Hacker News with Generative AI: NPM

Quasar Rat Disguised as an NPM Package for Detecting Vulnerabilities in Ethereum (socket.dev)
Socket’s threat research team has discovered a malicious npm package, ethereumvulncontracthandler, which is posing as a tool for detecting vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts but instead deploys Quasar RAT, a versatile remote access trojan, onto developers’ machines.
70% of new NPM packages in last 6 months were spam (phylum.io)
Unverified NPM Account Takeover Vulnerability for Sale on Dark Web Forum (socket.dev)
Show HN: Resource Index – FOSS Git Repository and NPM Package Index (hkit.cc)
NPM package is-even has over 140k weekly downloads (npmjs.com)