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eranation
81 days ago
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'No way to prevent this,' says only package manage...
These get detected almost immediately, and removed by npm within hours (axios, tanstack at least)
Hackbraten
81 days ago
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But who will detect them on day one once everyone ignores them for seven days?
bakkoting
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These things are usually caught by tools specifically scanning npm or by the maintainers noticing their account is compromised, not by people auditing their own installed packages.
eranation
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There are some companies that specialize in detecting those, they do it for free (and get lots of marketing for it…)
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