{"id":3869,"date":"2025-03-28T07:13:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T07:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/nine-year-old-npm-packages-hijacked-to-exfiltrate-api-keys-via-obfuscated-scripts\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T07:13:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T07:13:27","slug":"nine-year-old-npm-packages-hijacked-to-exfiltrate-api-keys-via-obfuscated-scripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/nine-year-old-npm-packages-hijacked-to-exfiltrate-api-keys-via-obfuscated-scripts\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine-Year-Old npm Packages Hijacked to Exfiltrate API Keys via Obfuscated Scripts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have discovered several cryptocurrency packages on the npm registry that have been hijacked to siphon sensitive information such as environment variables from compromised systems.<br \/>\n&#8220;Some of these packages have lived on npmjs.com for over 9 years, and provide legitimate functionality to blockchain developers,&#8221; Sonatype researcher Ax Sharma said. &#8220;However, [&#8230;] the latest\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have discovered several cryptocurrency packages on the npm registry that have been hijacked to siphon sensitive information such as environment variables from compromised systems.<br \/>\n&#8220;Some of these packages have lived on npmjs.com for over 9 years, and provide legitimate functionality to blockchain developers,&#8221; Sonatype researcher Ax Sharma said. &#8220;However, [&#8230;] the latest\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have discovered several cryptocurrency packages on the npm registry that have been hijacked to siphon sensitive information such as environment variables from compromised systems. &#8220;Some of these packages have lived on npmjs.com for over 9 years, and provide legitimate functionality to blockchain developers,&#8221; Sonatype researcher Ax Sharma said. &#8220;However, [&#8230;] the latest\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/nine-year-old-npm-packages-hijacked-to-exfiltrate-api-keys-via-obfuscated-scripts\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nine-Year-Old npm Packages Hijacked to Exfiltrate API Keys via Obfuscated Scripts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3870,"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\/3869"}],"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=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}