Malicious npm package posing as a WhatsApp Web API library operated for months as a functional dependency while stealing ...

A malicious package in the Node Package Manager (NPM) registry poses as a legitimate WhatsApp Web API library to steal ...

The lotusbail NPM package steals WhatsApp credentials, messages, and contacts, and provides persistent access to the victims’ accounts.

And it's especially dangerous because the code works A malicious npm package with more than 56,000 downloads masquerades as a working WhatsApp Web API library, and then it steals messages, harvests ...

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For most developers, broken code raises alarms. This time, the danger came from code that worked exactly as promised.A malicious npm package called lotusbail presented itself as a fully functional ...