{"id":4089,"date":"2025-04-19T17:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T17:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/04\/19\/rogue-npm-packages-mimic-telegram-bot-api-to-plant-ssh-backdoors-on-linux-systems\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T17:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T17:12:06","slug":"rogue-npm-packages-mimic-telegram-bot-api-to-plant-ssh-backdoors-on-linux-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/04\/19\/rogue-npm-packages-mimic-telegram-bot-api-to-plant-ssh-backdoors-on-linux-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogue npm Packages Mimic Telegram Bot API to Plant SSH Backdoors on Linux Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have uncovered three malicious packages in the npm registry that masquerade as a popular Telegram bot library but harbor SSH backdoors and data exfiltration capabilities.<br \/>\nThe packages in question are listed below &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>node-telegram-utils (132 downloads)<br \/>\nnode-telegram-bots-api (82 downloads)<br \/>\nnode-telegram-util (73 downloads)<\/p>\n<p>According to supply chain\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered three malicious packages in the npm registry that masquerade as a popular Telegram bot library but harbor SSH backdoors and data exfiltration capabilities.<br \/>\nThe packages in question are listed below &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>node-telegram-utils (132 downloads)<br \/>\nnode-telegram-bots-api (82 downloads)<br \/>\nnode-telegram-util (73 downloads)<\/p>\n<p>According to supply chain\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have uncovered three malicious packages in the npm registry that masquerade as a popular Telegram bot library but harbor SSH backdoors and data exfiltration capabilities. The packages in question are listed below &#8211; node-telegram-utils (132 downloads) node-telegram-bots-api (82 downloads) node-telegram-util (73 downloads) According to supply chain\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered three malicious packages in&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/04\/19\/rogue-npm-packages-mimic-telegram-bot-api-to-plant-ssh-backdoors-on-linux-systems\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rogue npm Packages Mimic Telegram Bot API to Plant SSH Backdoors on Linux Systems<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4090,"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\/4089"}],"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=4089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}