Sabotage: Code added to popular NPM package wiped files in Russia and Belarus
A developer added malicious code to a popular open-source package, wiping files on computers in Russia and Belarus as a protest.
Sabotage: Code added to popular NPM package wiped files in Russia and Belarus
A developer added malicious code to a popular open-source package, wiping files on computers in Russia and Belarus as a protest.
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Sabotage: Code added to popular NPM package wiped files in Russia and Belarus Description
A developer has been caught adding malicious code to a popular open-source package that wiped files on computers located in Russia and Belarus as part of a protest that has enraged many users and raised concerns about the safety of free and open source software. The application, node-ipc, adds remote interprocess communication and neural networking capabilities to other open source code libraries. As a dependency, node-ipc is automatically downloaded and incorporated into other libraries, including ones like Vue.js CLI, which has more than 1 million weekly downloads. A deliberate and dangerous act Two weeks ago, the node-ipc author pushed a new version of the library that sabotaged computers in Russia and Belarus, the countries invading Ukraine and pro
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