{"id":7671,"date":"2026-04-05T06:13:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/36-malicious-npm-packages-exploited-redis-postgresql-to-deploy-persistent-implants\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T06:13:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:13:47","slug":"36-malicious-npm-packages-exploited-redis-postgresql-to-deploy-persistent-implants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/36-malicious-npm-packages-exploited-redis-postgresql-to-deploy-persistent-implants\/","title":{"rendered":"36 Malicious npm Packages Exploited Redis, PostgreSQL to Deploy Persistent Implants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have discovered 36 malicious packages in the npm registry that are disguised as Strapi CMS plugins but come with different payloads to facilitate Redis and PostgreSQL exploitation, deploy reverse shells, harvest credentials, and drop a persistent\u00a0implant.<br \/>\n&#8220;Every package contains three files (package.json, index.js, postinstall.js), has no description, repository,\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have discovered 36 malicious packages in the npm registry that are disguised as Strapi CMS plugins but come with different payloads to facilitate Redis and PostgreSQL exploitation, deploy reverse shells, harvest credentials, and drop a persistent\u00a0implant.<br \/>\n&#8220;Every package contains three files (package.json, index.js, postinstall.js), has no description, repository,\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have discovered 36 malicious packages in the npm registry that are disguised as Strapi CMS plugins but come with different payloads to facilitate Redis and PostgreSQL exploitation, deploy reverse shells, harvest credentials, and drop a persistent\u00a0implant. &#8220;Every package contains three files (package.json, index.js, postinstall.js), has no description, repository,\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have discovered 36 malicious&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/36-malicious-npm-packages-exploited-redis-postgresql-to-deploy-persistent-implants\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">36 Malicious npm Packages Exploited Redis, PostgreSQL to Deploy Persistent Implants<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7672,"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\/7671"}],"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=7671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}