A set of fake npm packages discovered on the Node.js repository has been found to share ties with North Korean state-sponsored actors, new findings from Phylum show.
The packages are named execution-time-async, data-time-utils, login-time-utils, mongodb-connection-utils, and mongodb-execution-utils.
One of the packages in question, execution-time-async, masquerades as its legitimate
An unknown threat actor is leveraging malicious npm packages to target developers with an aim to steal source code and configuration files from victim machines, a sign of how threats lurk consistently in open-source repositories.
"The threat actor behind this campaign has been linked to malicious activity dating back to 2021," software supply chain security firm CheckmarxΒ saidΒ in a report shared