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Stealer Backdoor Found in 3 Node-IPC Versions Targeting Developer Secrets

Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm about what has been described as "malicious activity" in newly published versions of node-ipc.

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Malicious activity has been detected in certain versions of the node-ipc package. Researchers have identified three versions of the npm package as malicious: node-ipc@9.1.6, node-ipc@9.2.3, and node-ipc@12.0.1.

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