{"id":7933,"date":"2026-04-29T16:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/new-wave-of-dprk-attacks-uses-ai-inserted-npm-malware-fake-firms-and-rats\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T16:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:14:09","slug":"new-wave-of-dprk-attacks-uses-ai-inserted-npm-malware-fake-firms-and-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/new-wave-of-dprk-attacks-uses-ai-inserted-npm-malware-fake-firms-and-rats\/","title":{"rendered":"New Wave of DPRK Attacks Uses AI-Inserted npm Malware, Fake Firms, and RATs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have discovered malicious code in an npm package after a malicious package as a dependency to the project by Anthropic&#8217;s Claude Opus large language model (LLM).<br \/>\nThe package in question is &#8220;@validate-sdk\/v2,&#8221; which is listed on npm as a utility software development kit (SDK) for hashing, validation, encoding\/decoding, and secure random generation. However, its real\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malicious code in an npm package after a malicious package as a dependency to the project by Anthropic&#8217;s Claude Opus large language model (LLM).<br \/>\nThe package in question is &#8220;@validate-sdk\/v2,&#8221; which is listed on npm as a utility software development kit (SDK) for hashing, validation, encoding\/decoding, and secure random generation. However, its real\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have discovered malicious code in an npm package after a malicious package as a dependency to the project by Anthropic&#8217;s Claude Opus large language model (LLM). The package in question is &#8220;@validate-sdk\/v2,&#8221; which is listed on npm as a utility software development kit (SDK) for hashing, validation, encoding\/decoding, and secure random generation. However,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/new-wave-of-dprk-attacks-uses-ai-inserted-npm-malware-fake-firms-and-rats\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Wave of DPRK Attacks Uses AI-Inserted npm Malware, Fake Firms, and RATs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7934,"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\/7933"}],"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=7933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}