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event-stream trojan

2018-11-26 21:48:51.235596+00 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

RT Kevin Beaumont 🥴 Verified account @GossiTheDog:

NPM library with 2m installs has a backdoor, looks to be some kind of Trojan (stealer?)

https://github.com/dominictarr/event-stream/issues/116

The original author seems to have abandoned the project, someone came along and said they wanted to do something with the project, so: "...he emailed me and said he wanted to maintain the module, so I gave it to him. I don't get any thing from maintaining this module, and I don't even use it anymore, and havn't for years."

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#Comment Re: event-stream trojan made: 2018-11-27 22:31:54.033614+00 by: Dan Lyke

https://schneid.io/blog/event-stream-vulnerability-explained/

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