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by olex 1700 days ago
Maintainer already released clean versions "on top of" the compromised ones, and NPM acted on reports and removed the compromised versions as well.

Compromised (and no longer downloadable from NPM):

- 0.7.29

- 0.8.0

- 1.0.0

Clean:

- 0.7.28 (last version before the hijack)

- 0.7.30

- 0.8.1

- 1.0.1

Compromised versions apparently contained a cryptomining tool capable of running on Linux, and a trojan that extracts sensitive data (saved passwords, cookies) from browsers on Windows. Both are blocked by up-to-date Windows Defender and presumably other AV software.

1 comments

I have 0.7.28 as a dependency of a dependency and the miner is running on my system. So it may not just be 0.7.29?
User error, 0.7.28 is safe