Oh, For Fucking Christ’s Sake: Another NPM Package Disaster

Right. So some goddamn script kiddies – and let’s be real, it *always* is – are shoving malicious packages onto NPM pretending to be legit Flashbots stuff. Flashbots! Like anyone actually trusts those guys implicitly? Anyway, these aren’t typosquatting anymore; they’re straight-up impersonating legitimate projects. Clever, I guess, if you have the IQ of a garden slug.

What do these delightful little bits of malware *do*? They steal your Ethereum wallet keys. Yeah, that’s right. Your precious crypto. Because apparently people still leave their private keys lying around in code like it’s 1998. They’re using sneaky techniques to grab environment variables and other sensitive info. It’s basic stuff, honestly.

The worst part? Over 300 projects were affected. Three *hundred*. And they’ve been downloaded thousands of times. Thousands! Do you people not check what you’re installing?! Seriously, use a damn linter, look at the source code, I don’t know… *something* before you just blindly trust random packages.

They’ve pulled the offending packages now, but the damage is probably already done. And you can bet your ass there will be more. NPM is a festering cesspool of bad ideas and security nightmares. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2025/09/malicious-npm-packages-impersonate.html

Speaking of stupidity, I once had a sysadmin who thought obfuscating passwords with base64 encoding was “good security.” Base64! The guy was running the network. It’s no wonder things break constantly.

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