{"id":6608,"date":"2026-01-08T11:21:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/researchers-uncover-nodecordrat-hidden-in-npm-bitcoin-themed-packages\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T11:21:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:21:42","slug":"researchers-uncover-nodecordrat-hidden-in-npm-bitcoin-themed-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/researchers-uncover-nodecordrat-hidden-in-npm-bitcoin-themed-packages\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Uncover NodeCordRAT Hidden in npm Bitcoin-Themed Packages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have discovered three malicious npm packages that are designed to deliver a previously undocumented malware called NodeCordRAT.<br \/>\nThe names of the packages, all of which were taken down as of November 2025, are listed below. They were uploaded by a user named &#8220;wenmoonx.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>bitcoin-main-lib (2,300 Downloads)<br \/>\nbitcoin-lib-js (193 Downloads)<br \/>\nbip40 (970 Downloads)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have discovered three malicious npm packages that are designed to deliver a previously undocumented malware called NodeCordRAT.<br \/>\nThe names of the packages, all of which were taken down as of November 2025, are listed below. They were uploaded by a user named &#8220;wenmoonx.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>bitcoin-main-lib (2,300 Downloads)<br \/>\nbitcoin-lib-js (193 Downloads)<br \/>\nbip40 (970 Downloads)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have discovered three malicious npm packages that are designed to deliver a previously undocumented malware called NodeCordRAT. The names of the packages, all of which were taken down as of November 2025, are listed below. They were uploaded by a user named &#8220;wenmoonx.&#8221; bitcoin-main-lib (2,300 Downloads) bitcoin-lib-js (193 Downloads) bip40 (970 Downloads) &#8220;The\u00a0Cybersecurity&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/researchers-uncover-nodecordrat-hidden-in-npm-bitcoin-themed-packages\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Researchers Uncover NodeCordRAT Hidden in npm Bitcoin-Themed Packages<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6609,"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\/6608"}],"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=6608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}