this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2026
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It seems like some person with a bot just asked to maintain a bunch of orphaned packages, abusing the 2-week waiting period. Right?
Thats why they used npm; off the shelf, almost “standard practice” credential harvesting malware. Nothing too fancy.