Cyber Midpoint – 175 Malicious npm Packages With 26,000 Downloads Attacking Technology, and Energy Companies Worldwide

Socket’s Threat Research Team has uncovered a sophisticated phishing campaign involving 175 malicious npm packages that collectively accumulated over 26,000 downloads. The campaign, dubbed “Beamglea” based on consistent artifacts across all packages, represents a novel abuse of npm’s public registry and the unpkg.com CDN to host redirect scripts targeting 135+ industrial, technology, and energy companies […]