{"id":9969,"date":"2026-09-22T11:11:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/22\/malicious-npm-package-indexed-btree-hid-its-loader-in-runtime-code-before-removal\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T11:11:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:11:53","slug":"malicious-npm-package-indexed-btree-hid-its-loader-in-runtime-code-before-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/22\/malicious-npm-package-indexed-btree-hid-its-loader-in-runtime-code-before-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"Malicious npm Package indexed-btree Hid Its Loader in Runtime Code Before Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA malicious npm package named &#8220;indexed-btree&#8221; has been observed hiding its malicious behavior within application code rather than using lifecycle scripts, indicating that threat actors are likely shifting tactics in response to recent security controls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Indexed-btree is a malicious npm package mimicking the legit sorted-btree package, an ordinary B-tree\/indexing utility,&#8221; Checkmarx said. &#8221;\u00a0A malicious npm package named &#8220;indexed-btree&#8221; has been observed hiding its malicious behavior within application code rather than using lifecycle scripts, indicating that threat actors are likely shifting tactics in response to recent security controls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Indexed-btree is a malicious npm package mimicking the legit sorted-btree package, an ordinary B-tree\/indexing utility,&#8221; Checkmarx said. &#8221;\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA malicious npm package named &#8220;indexed-btree&#8221; has been observed hiding its malicious behavior within application code rather than using lifecycle scripts, indicating that threat actors are likely shifting tactics in response to recent security controls. &#8220;Indexed-btree is a malicious npm package mimicking the legit sorted-btree package, an ordinary B-tree\/indexing utility,&#8221; Checkmarx said. &#8221;\u00a0A malicious npm&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/22\/malicious-npm-package-indexed-btree-hid-its-loader-in-runtime-code-before-removal\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Malicious npm Package indexed-btree Hid Its Loader in Runtime Code Before Removal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9970,"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\/9969"}],"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=9969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}