{"id":10097,"date":"2026-09-29T16:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T16:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/29\/101-malicious-npm-packages-add-developers-whatsapp-accounts-to-groups-without-consent\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T16:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T16:12:07","slug":"101-malicious-npm-packages-add-developers-whatsapp-accounts-to-groups-without-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/29\/101-malicious-npm-packages-add-developers-whatsapp-accounts-to-groups-without-consent\/","title":{"rendered":"101 Malicious npm Packages Add Developers&#8217; WhatsApp Accounts to Groups Without Consent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have identified a cluster of 101 npm packages that are used to trap developers into a WhatsApp group subscriber campaign dubbed PhantomSub.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The malicious packages abuse the &#8216;Baileys&#8217; WhatsApp open source project to add the victims to groups without their consent,&#8221; OX Security researchers Nir Zadok, Moshe Siman Tov Bustan, and Vitalii Chepurko said in a technical\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have identified a cluster of 101 npm packages that are used to trap developers into a WhatsApp group subscriber campaign dubbed PhantomSub.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The malicious packages abuse the &#8216;Baileys&#8217; WhatsApp open source project to add the victims to groups without their consent,&#8221; OX Security researchers Nir Zadok, Moshe Siman Tov Bustan, and Vitalii Chepurko said in a technical\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have identified a cluster of 101 npm packages that are used to trap developers into a WhatsApp group subscriber campaign dubbed PhantomSub. &#8220;The malicious packages abuse the &#8216;Baileys&#8217; WhatsApp open source project to add the victims to groups without their consent,&#8221; OX Security researchers Nir Zadok, Moshe Siman Tov Bustan, and Vitalii Chepurko&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/29\/101-malicious-npm-packages-add-developers-whatsapp-accounts-to-groups-without-consent\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">101 Malicious npm Packages Add Developers&#8217; WhatsApp Accounts to Groups Without Consent<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}