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101 Malicious npm Packages Add Developers’ WhatsApp Accounts to Groups Without Consent

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​Cybersecurity researchers have identified a cluster of 101 npm packages that are used to trap developers into a WhatsApp group subscriber campaign dubbed PhantomSub.

“The malicious packages abuse the ‘Baileys’ WhatsApp open source project to add the victims to groups without their consent,” OX Security researchers Nir Zadok, Moshe Siman Tov Bustan, and Vitalii Chepurko said in a technical Cybersecurity researchers have identified a cluster of 101 npm packages that are used to trap developers into a WhatsApp group subscriber campaign dubbed PhantomSub.

“The malicious packages abuse the ‘Baileys’ WhatsApp open source project to add the victims to groups without their consent,” OX Security researchers Nir Zadok, Moshe Siman Tov Bustan, and Vitalii Chepurko said in a technical  The Hacker News

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