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Malicious Postinstall Hook Found in 700 GitHub Repos, Including Node Projects

Postinstall hooks are a footgun. The bad part here is that people reviewing a PHP package may not even look closely at package.json.

7 hours agokspetkov79

How many more examples of malware postinstall scripts do we need before Node quits running them by default, without warning?

8 hours agotedchs

[dead]

8 hours agonullsex

All Composer packages (but the malicious part is in the node dependency)

Effected*

> Use effect as a noun to refer to a change resulting from something.

10 hours agognabgib

Title is somewhat misleading. "Node projects" mean projects using nodejs as opposed to projects under the Node.js org.