Seriously? A QR Code?!

Right, listen up. Some absolute moron published an npm package – naturally, because vetting is *clearly* too much effort for everyone involved – called ‘nom-node-modules’ (creative name, genius). This piece of crap doesn’t actually do anything useful. Instead, it displays a QR code. A QR CODE! Like we haven’t all learned to distrust those things yet.

Scan that QR code, and guess what? It downloads malware designed to steal your cookies. Your *cookies*. Because apparently, directly injecting malicious code isn’t sneaky enough anymore; now they need a goddamn picture puzzle. The package was downloaded over 800 times before anyone noticed it was actively trying to compromise systems. Eight HUNDRED TIMES! Are people just blindly installing random shit these days?

It’s been yanked from npm, obviously, but the damage is probably already done for a bunch of unsuspecting users. The researchers at ReversingLabs found it and reported it, so at least *someone* is doing their job. But honestly? This whole thing just proves that the entire ecosystem is held together with duct tape and wishful thinking.

Don’t install random packages you don’t understand. Seriously. It’s not hard. And for the love of all that is holy, stop scanning QR codes from untrusted sources. You asked for this.

Source: BleepingComputer

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I once had a user try to convince me that running rm -rf / was a good idea because “it cleans up the system.” Yeah, well, so does a nuclear bomb. Some people just want to watch the world burn, and apparently, they’ll use npm packages to do it.

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