{"id":10390,"date":"2026-10-17T12:12:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T12:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/malfex-npm-package-imgdecode-hides-shellcode-loader-in-windows-native-addon\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T12:12:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T12:12:50","slug":"malfex-npm-package-imgdecode-hides-shellcode-loader-in-windows-native-addon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/malfex-npm-package-imgdecode-hides-shellcode-loader-in-windows-native-addon\/","title":{"rendered":"MALFEX npm Package &#8216;imgdecode&#8217; Hides Shellcode Loader in Windows Native Addon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious npm package that&#8217;s part of a recently disclosed software supply chain attack campaign dubbed MALFEX.<\/p>\n<p>The package, named &#8220;imgdecode,&#8221; was uploaded to the package registry on September 30, 2026, by a user named &#8220;malfexteste8.&#8221; It has been downloaded 979 times as of writing and is still available on npm as of writing. The latest version of\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious npm package that&#8217;s part of a recently disclosed software supply chain attack campaign dubbed MALFEX.<\/p>\n<p>The package, named &#8220;imgdecode,&#8221; was uploaded to the package registry on September 30, 2026, by a user named &#8220;malfexteste8.&#8221; It has been downloaded 979 times as of writing and is still available on npm as of writing. The latest version of\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious npm package that&#8217;s part of a recently disclosed software supply chain attack campaign dubbed MALFEX. The package, named &#8220;imgdecode,&#8221; was uploaded to the package registry on September 30, 2026, by a user named &#8220;malfexteste8.&#8221; It has been downloaded 979 times as of writing and is still available on npm&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/malfex-npm-package-imgdecode-hides-shellcode-loader-in-windows-native-addon\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MALFEX npm Package &#8216;imgdecode&#8217; Hides Shellcode Loader in Windows Native Addon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10391,"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\/10390"}],"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=10390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}