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@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.144
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
No classic malware indicators (no external network exfiltration, persistence, or remote execution) are evident in this snippet. However, the code is strongly suspicious/high-risk because it reads a local authentication token from disk, injects it into an auth cookie and client storage, and then actively tampers with internal API responses—spoofing hub status/sessions and forcing messages/tasks to empty—capable of misleading users and disrupting operational workflows even when run against a local target.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.134
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This dependency-style module behaves as authenticated local automation that also performs explicit API response tampering: it reads a token from a local config file, injects it as an auth cookie, manipulates hub status payloads, and erases messages/tasks by returning empty arrays via Playwright routing. Even without evidence of outbound exfiltration, the combination of credential handling and intentional data manipulation strongly suggests security-sensitive misuse or sabotage capability. It should be restricted to trusted, controlled testing environments and not treated as benign automation without clear provenance and safeguards.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.143
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This module is a security-relevant manipulator rather than a passive tester: it reads a sensitive token from disk, injects it into an authentication cookie and auth-like browser storage, and actively falsifies or suppresses key API responses (status/messages/tasks) to control what the web app believes. Even though it targets localhost and does not show external exfiltration, the combination of credential handling and intentional response tampering presents a high security risk and warrants careful review of distribution/use context and intended trust boundaries.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.130
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This code is primarily an integration-style UI probe, but it is security-sensitive: it reads a real auth token from a hardcoded local path, injects it into an authentication cookie for localhost, and performs active response tampering for hub/status/messages/tasks using wildcard route interception (including forcing messages/tasks to empty). While it does not show classic malware/exfiltration behaviors, the credential handling plus backend-response manipulation makes it a notable supply-chain risk and should be gated to trusted test environments and redesigned to avoid reading real tokens from disk.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.128
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This module is a Playwright automation harness that elevates from UI/CSS probing into authenticated application manipulation by (1) loading a secret token from a hardcoded local path and embedding it into an auth cookie, (2) injecting client-side storage flags, and most importantly (3) intercepting and replacing hub API responses—fabricating status/session data and forcing messages/tasks to empty arrays. That combination strongly indicates intentional integrity-impacting tampering/bypass rather than benign observation. No external network exfiltration is evident in the provided fragment, but the integrity/availability risk to the targeted application environment is substantial.
gm-skill
2.0.1130
by lanmower
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This code implements a privileged WASM host that exposes extremely dangerous capabilities to the WASM module: arbitrary JS execution via eval (hostExecJs), arbitrary filesystem read/write/enumeration via hostFs*Sync, and environment-variable secret exfiltration via hostEnvGet. If the WASM binary or wasmPath source is not strictly trusted and integrity-verified, the security risk is very high (near full host compromise). Even with trusted WASM, the presence of these broad primitives is inherently risky and should be treated as a high-severity supply-chain capability gate rather than a safe plugin sandbox.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.138
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This code is security-relevant and likely intended for targeted manipulation of a local dashboard: it reads a sensitive token from an absolute path, injects it into an authentication cookie/storage to gain access, and then actively intercepts and forges hub status responses while blanking messages and tasks. Even though it runs against localhost and does not visibly exfiltrate data, the combination of credential use and API response tampering is consistent with sabotage/integrity attacks rather than benign testing.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.141
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This module is a security-relevant manipulator rather than a passive tester: it reads a sensitive token from disk, injects it into an authentication cookie and auth-like browser storage, and actively falsifies or suppresses key API responses (status/messages/tasks) to control what the web app believes. Even though it targets localhost and does not show external exfiltration, the combination of credential handling and intentional response tampering presents a high security risk and warrants careful review of distribution/use context and intended trust boundaries.
wafrift-grammar
0.2.14
Live on cargo
Blocked by Socket
This Rust module is an explicitly offensive, weaponized command-injection payload mutation engine. It parses attacker-controlled input into command/args and then deterministically produces many executable shell/PowerShell injection variants that attempt WAF bypass via `${IFS}`, separator/space rotation, quoting/backslash obfuscation, path wildcards, and encoding/decoding pipelines that end in `sh`/`bash`/PowerShell execution. It can also generate `/dev/tcp/...`-style network callback syntax within returned payload strings. No runtime execution occurs in this file, but the behavior is highly conducive to real exploitation when integrated into a broader system; therefore it represents a major supply-chain security red flag.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.139
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This file is a headless browser automation/probing script that uses a locally stored secret token to impersonate an authenticated dashboard session, then actively tampers with internal hub API responses (overwriting sessions and forcibly emptying messages/tasks) before probing UI rendering attributes. Even though it targets localhost and shows no external network exfiltration in this snippet, the deliberate credential reuse and in-flight response suppression constitutes a high-risk integrity manipulation pattern consistent with unauthorized interference rather than purely benign testing.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.137
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This dependency-style module behaves as authenticated local automation that also performs explicit API response tampering: it reads a token from a local config file, injects it as an auth cookie, manipulates hub status payloads, and erases messages/tasks by returning empty arrays via Playwright routing. Even without evidence of outbound exfiltration, the combination of credential handling and intentional data manipulation strongly suggests security-sensitive misuse or sabotage capability. It should be restricted to trusted, controlled testing environments and not treated as benign automation without clear provenance and safeguards.
formal-ai
0.56.0
Live on cargo
Blocked by Socket
High supply-chain risk: this module fetches remote JavaScript from unpkg.com at runtime and executes it via eval(), then uses the result to run shell commands that install/replace npm globally. Even though the surrounding logic resembles an npm updater, the eval(remote-code) stage introduces direct remote code execution in the installing environment, which can enable arbitrary compromise (sabotage, credential theft, or persistence) if the fetched code is altered. This should be reviewed/mitigated (remove eval+remote fetch, pin and verify dependencies, and avoid runtime CDN script execution).
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.130
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This dependency-style module behaves as authenticated local automation that also performs explicit API response tampering: it reads a token from a local config file, injects it as an auth cookie, manipulates hub status payloads, and erases messages/tasks by returning empty arrays via Playwright routing. Even without evidence of outbound exfiltration, the combination of credential handling and intentional data manipulation strongly suggests security-sensitive misuse or sabotage capability. It should be restricted to trusted, controlled testing environments and not treated as benign automation without clear provenance and safeguards.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.125
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This code is highly suspicious for supply-chain security purposes: it reads a sensitive local authentication token, injects it into browser cookies to authenticate to a local service, and then actively tampers with internal API responses—spoofing hub status sessions and wiping hub messages/tasks. Even though it appears to be run against localhost and does not show outward exfiltration in this snippet, the functional tampering behavior is consistent with sabotage/unauthorized state manipulation. Treat the dependency/script as unsafe and isolate/review it; rotate any tokens that may have been exposed.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.140
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This module is a security-relevant manipulator rather than a passive tester: it reads a sensitive token from disk, injects it into an authentication cookie and auth-like browser storage, and actively falsifies or suppresses key API responses (status/messages/tasks) to control what the web app believes. Even though it targets localhost and does not show external exfiltration, the combination of credential handling and intentional response tampering presents a high security risk and warrants careful review of distribution/use context and intended trust boundaries.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.140
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This module is a Playwright automation harness that elevates from UI/CSS probing into authenticated application manipulation by (1) loading a secret token from a hardcoded local path and embedding it into an auth cookie, (2) injecting client-side storage flags, and most importantly (3) intercepting and replacing hub API responses—fabricating status/session data and forcing messages/tasks to empty arrays. That combination strongly indicates intentional integrity-impacting tampering/bypass rather than benign observation. No external network exfiltration is evident in the provided fragment, but the integrity/availability risk to the targeted application environment is substantial.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.127
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
No classic malware indicators (no external network exfiltration, persistence, or remote execution) are evident in this snippet. However, the code is strongly suspicious/high-risk because it reads a local authentication token from disk, injects it into an auth cookie and client storage, and then actively tampers with internal API responses—spoofing hub status/sessions and forcing messages/tasks to empty—capable of misleading users and disrupting operational workflows even when run against a local target.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.141
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This code is highly suspicious for supply-chain security purposes: it reads a sensitive local authentication token, injects it into browser cookies to authenticate to a local service, and then actively tampers with internal API responses—spoofing hub status sessions and wiping hub messages/tasks. Even though it appears to be run against localhost and does not show outward exfiltration in this snippet, the functional tampering behavior is consistent with sabotage/unauthorized state manipulation. Treat the dependency/script as unsafe and isolate/review it; rotate any tokens that may have been exposed.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.127
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This dependency-style module behaves as authenticated local automation that also performs explicit API response tampering: it reads a token from a local config file, injects it as an auth cookie, manipulates hub status payloads, and erases messages/tasks by returning empty arrays via Playwright routing. Even without evidence of outbound exfiltration, the combination of credential handling and intentional data manipulation strongly suggests security-sensitive misuse or sabotage capability. It should be restricted to trusted, controlled testing environments and not treated as benign automation without clear provenance and safeguards.
@vpxa/aikit
0.1.157
by anvpx
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This module is primarily template/instruction generation, but it also embeds a high-risk execution bootstrap: a `node -e` payload using `child_process.execSync` to run `npx --prefer-online -y @vpxa/aikit serve` and to rename `_npx*` entries in the user’s local npm cache. That combination is consistent with unsolicited network package execution and host-environment steering. Even without seeing invocation in this file, the exported command spec makes it plausible that importing code triggers execution, so the security posture should be treated as high risk for developer/CI environments.
refractium
3.0.10
Live on cargo
Blocked by Socket
This code fragment is highly likely malicious. It is explicitly a Slowloris-style DoS implementation: it opens many concurrent TCP connections to a configurable target and repeatedly sends partial/incomplete HTTP headers on those connections in an infinite loop to exhaust server resources. Treat it as unsafe/hostile code for any software supply chain context.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.144
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This file is a headless browser automation/probing script that uses a locally stored secret token to impersonate an authenticated dashboard session, then actively tampers with internal hub API responses (overwriting sessions and forcibly emptying messages/tasks) before probing UI rendering attributes. Even though it targets localhost and shows no external network exfiltration in this snippet, the deliberate credential reuse and in-flight response suppression constitutes a high-risk integrity manipulation pattern consistent with unauthorized interference rather than purely benign testing.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.129
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This code is highly suspicious for supply-chain security purposes: it reads a sensitive local authentication token, injects it into browser cookies to authenticate to a local service, and then actively tampers with internal API responses—spoofing hub status sessions and wiping hub messages/tasks. Even though it appears to be run against localhost and does not show outward exfiltration in this snippet, the functional tampering behavior is consistent with sabotage/unauthorized state manipulation. Treat the dependency/script as unsafe and isolate/review it; rotate any tokens that may have been exposed.
@w3kits-com/plugin-opendesign
0.1.19
by luanxu
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This module implements a highly sensitive browser-data extraction workflow: it retrieves the Chrome Safe Storage decryption secret from the macOS Keychain, copies and reads the local Chrome Cookies SQLite database, decrypts Chrome “v10” encrypted cookie values via OpenSSL, and returns decrypted cookie values to the caller. While no network exfiltration is visible in the fragment, the capability is strongly consistent with session/auth cookie harvesting. The snippet is truncated/invalid at the end, reducing confidence in final cleanup and any unseen behavior beyond cookie extraction.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.126
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This dependency-style module behaves as authenticated local automation that also performs explicit API response tampering: it reads a token from a local config file, injects it as an auth cookie, manipulates hub status payloads, and erases messages/tasks by returning empty arrays via Playwright routing. Even without evidence of outbound exfiltration, the combination of credential handling and intentional data manipulation strongly suggests security-sensitive misuse or sabotage capability. It should be restricted to trusted, controlled testing environments and not treated as benign automation without clear provenance and safeguards.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.144
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
No classic malware indicators (no external network exfiltration, persistence, or remote execution) are evident in this snippet. However, the code is strongly suspicious/high-risk because it reads a local authentication token from disk, injects it into an auth cookie and client storage, and then actively tampers with internal API responses—spoofing hub status/sessions and forcing messages/tasks to empty—capable of misleading users and disrupting operational workflows even when run against a local target.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.134
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This dependency-style module behaves as authenticated local automation that also performs explicit API response tampering: it reads a token from a local config file, injects it as an auth cookie, manipulates hub status payloads, and erases messages/tasks by returning empty arrays via Playwright routing. Even without evidence of outbound exfiltration, the combination of credential handling and intentional data manipulation strongly suggests security-sensitive misuse or sabotage capability. It should be restricted to trusted, controlled testing environments and not treated as benign automation without clear provenance and safeguards.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.143
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This module is a security-relevant manipulator rather than a passive tester: it reads a sensitive token from disk, injects it into an authentication cookie and auth-like browser storage, and actively falsifies or suppresses key API responses (status/messages/tasks) to control what the web app believes. Even though it targets localhost and does not show external exfiltration, the combination of credential handling and intentional response tampering presents a high security risk and warrants careful review of distribution/use context and intended trust boundaries.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.130
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This code is primarily an integration-style UI probe, but it is security-sensitive: it reads a real auth token from a hardcoded local path, injects it into an authentication cookie for localhost, and performs active response tampering for hub/status/messages/tasks using wildcard route interception (including forcing messages/tasks to empty). While it does not show classic malware/exfiltration behaviors, the credential handling plus backend-response manipulation makes it a notable supply-chain risk and should be gated to trusted test environments and redesigned to avoid reading real tokens from disk.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.128
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This module is a Playwright automation harness that elevates from UI/CSS probing into authenticated application manipulation by (1) loading a secret token from a hardcoded local path and embedding it into an auth cookie, (2) injecting client-side storage flags, and most importantly (3) intercepting and replacing hub API responses—fabricating status/session data and forcing messages/tasks to empty arrays. That combination strongly indicates intentional integrity-impacting tampering/bypass rather than benign observation. No external network exfiltration is evident in the provided fragment, but the integrity/availability risk to the targeted application environment is substantial.
gm-skill
2.0.1130
by lanmower
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This code implements a privileged WASM host that exposes extremely dangerous capabilities to the WASM module: arbitrary JS execution via eval (hostExecJs), arbitrary filesystem read/write/enumeration via hostFs*Sync, and environment-variable secret exfiltration via hostEnvGet. If the WASM binary or wasmPath source is not strictly trusted and integrity-verified, the security risk is very high (near full host compromise). Even with trusted WASM, the presence of these broad primitives is inherently risky and should be treated as a high-severity supply-chain capability gate rather than a safe plugin sandbox.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.138
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This code is security-relevant and likely intended for targeted manipulation of a local dashboard: it reads a sensitive token from an absolute path, injects it into an authentication cookie/storage to gain access, and then actively intercepts and forges hub status responses while blanking messages and tasks. Even though it runs against localhost and does not visibly exfiltrate data, the combination of credential use and API response tampering is consistent with sabotage/integrity attacks rather than benign testing.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.141
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This module is a security-relevant manipulator rather than a passive tester: it reads a sensitive token from disk, injects it into an authentication cookie and auth-like browser storage, and actively falsifies or suppresses key API responses (status/messages/tasks) to control what the web app believes. Even though it targets localhost and does not show external exfiltration, the combination of credential handling and intentional response tampering presents a high security risk and warrants careful review of distribution/use context and intended trust boundaries.
wafrift-grammar
0.2.14
Live on cargo
Blocked by Socket
This Rust module is an explicitly offensive, weaponized command-injection payload mutation engine. It parses attacker-controlled input into command/args and then deterministically produces many executable shell/PowerShell injection variants that attempt WAF bypass via `${IFS}`, separator/space rotation, quoting/backslash obfuscation, path wildcards, and encoding/decoding pipelines that end in `sh`/`bash`/PowerShell execution. It can also generate `/dev/tcp/...`-style network callback syntax within returned payload strings. No runtime execution occurs in this file, but the behavior is highly conducive to real exploitation when integrated into a broader system; therefore it represents a major supply-chain security red flag.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.139
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This file is a headless browser automation/probing script that uses a locally stored secret token to impersonate an authenticated dashboard session, then actively tampers with internal hub API responses (overwriting sessions and forcibly emptying messages/tasks) before probing UI rendering attributes. Even though it targets localhost and shows no external network exfiltration in this snippet, the deliberate credential reuse and in-flight response suppression constitutes a high-risk integrity manipulation pattern consistent with unauthorized interference rather than purely benign testing.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.137
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This dependency-style module behaves as authenticated local automation that also performs explicit API response tampering: it reads a token from a local config file, injects it as an auth cookie, manipulates hub status payloads, and erases messages/tasks by returning empty arrays via Playwright routing. Even without evidence of outbound exfiltration, the combination of credential handling and intentional data manipulation strongly suggests security-sensitive misuse or sabotage capability. It should be restricted to trusted, controlled testing environments and not treated as benign automation without clear provenance and safeguards.
formal-ai
0.56.0
Live on cargo
Blocked by Socket
High supply-chain risk: this module fetches remote JavaScript from unpkg.com at runtime and executes it via eval(), then uses the result to run shell commands that install/replace npm globally. Even though the surrounding logic resembles an npm updater, the eval(remote-code) stage introduces direct remote code execution in the installing environment, which can enable arbitrary compromise (sabotage, credential theft, or persistence) if the fetched code is altered. This should be reviewed/mitigated (remove eval+remote fetch, pin and verify dependencies, and avoid runtime CDN script execution).
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.130
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This dependency-style module behaves as authenticated local automation that also performs explicit API response tampering: it reads a token from a local config file, injects it as an auth cookie, manipulates hub status payloads, and erases messages/tasks by returning empty arrays via Playwright routing. Even without evidence of outbound exfiltration, the combination of credential handling and intentional data manipulation strongly suggests security-sensitive misuse or sabotage capability. It should be restricted to trusted, controlled testing environments and not treated as benign automation without clear provenance and safeguards.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.125
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This code is highly suspicious for supply-chain security purposes: it reads a sensitive local authentication token, injects it into browser cookies to authenticate to a local service, and then actively tampers with internal API responses—spoofing hub status sessions and wiping hub messages/tasks. Even though it appears to be run against localhost and does not show outward exfiltration in this snippet, the functional tampering behavior is consistent with sabotage/unauthorized state manipulation. Treat the dependency/script as unsafe and isolate/review it; rotate any tokens that may have been exposed.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.140
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This module is a security-relevant manipulator rather than a passive tester: it reads a sensitive token from disk, injects it into an authentication cookie and auth-like browser storage, and actively falsifies or suppresses key API responses (status/messages/tasks) to control what the web app believes. Even though it targets localhost and does not show external exfiltration, the combination of credential handling and intentional response tampering presents a high security risk and warrants careful review of distribution/use context and intended trust boundaries.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.140
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This module is a Playwright automation harness that elevates from UI/CSS probing into authenticated application manipulation by (1) loading a secret token from a hardcoded local path and embedding it into an auth cookie, (2) injecting client-side storage flags, and most importantly (3) intercepting and replacing hub API responses—fabricating status/session data and forcing messages/tasks to empty arrays. That combination strongly indicates intentional integrity-impacting tampering/bypass rather than benign observation. No external network exfiltration is evident in the provided fragment, but the integrity/availability risk to the targeted application environment is substantial.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.127
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
No classic malware indicators (no external network exfiltration, persistence, or remote execution) are evident in this snippet. However, the code is strongly suspicious/high-risk because it reads a local authentication token from disk, injects it into an auth cookie and client storage, and then actively tampers with internal API responses—spoofing hub status/sessions and forcing messages/tasks to empty—capable of misleading users and disrupting operational workflows even when run against a local target.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.141
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This code is highly suspicious for supply-chain security purposes: it reads a sensitive local authentication token, injects it into browser cookies to authenticate to a local service, and then actively tampers with internal API responses—spoofing hub status sessions and wiping hub messages/tasks. Even though it appears to be run against localhost and does not show outward exfiltration in this snippet, the functional tampering behavior is consistent with sabotage/unauthorized state manipulation. Treat the dependency/script as unsafe and isolate/review it; rotate any tokens that may have been exposed.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.127
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This dependency-style module behaves as authenticated local automation that also performs explicit API response tampering: it reads a token from a local config file, injects it as an auth cookie, manipulates hub status payloads, and erases messages/tasks by returning empty arrays via Playwright routing. Even without evidence of outbound exfiltration, the combination of credential handling and intentional data manipulation strongly suggests security-sensitive misuse or sabotage capability. It should be restricted to trusted, controlled testing environments and not treated as benign automation without clear provenance and safeguards.
@vpxa/aikit
0.1.157
by anvpx
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This module is primarily template/instruction generation, but it also embeds a high-risk execution bootstrap: a `node -e` payload using `child_process.execSync` to run `npx --prefer-online -y @vpxa/aikit serve` and to rename `_npx*` entries in the user’s local npm cache. That combination is consistent with unsolicited network package execution and host-environment steering. Even without seeing invocation in this file, the exported command spec makes it plausible that importing code triggers execution, so the security posture should be treated as high risk for developer/CI environments.
refractium
3.0.10
Live on cargo
Blocked by Socket
This code fragment is highly likely malicious. It is explicitly a Slowloris-style DoS implementation: it opens many concurrent TCP connections to a configurable target and repeatedly sends partial/incomplete HTTP headers on those connections in an infinite loop to exhaust server resources. Treat it as unsafe/hostile code for any software supply chain context.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.144
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This file is a headless browser automation/probing script that uses a locally stored secret token to impersonate an authenticated dashboard session, then actively tampers with internal hub API responses (overwriting sessions and forcibly emptying messages/tasks) before probing UI rendering attributes. Even though it targets localhost and shows no external network exfiltration in this snippet, the deliberate credential reuse and in-flight response suppression constitutes a high-risk integrity manipulation pattern consistent with unauthorized interference rather than purely benign testing.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.129
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This code is highly suspicious for supply-chain security purposes: it reads a sensitive local authentication token, injects it into browser cookies to authenticate to a local service, and then actively tampers with internal API responses—spoofing hub status sessions and wiping hub messages/tasks. Even though it appears to be run against localhost and does not show outward exfiltration in this snippet, the functional tampering behavior is consistent with sabotage/unauthorized state manipulation. Treat the dependency/script as unsafe and isolate/review it; rotate any tokens that may have been exposed.
@w3kits-com/plugin-opendesign
0.1.19
by luanxu
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This module implements a highly sensitive browser-data extraction workflow: it retrieves the Chrome Safe Storage decryption secret from the macOS Keychain, copies and reads the local Chrome Cookies SQLite database, decrypts Chrome “v10” encrypted cookie values via OpenSSL, and returns decrypted cookie values to the caller. While no network exfiltration is visible in the fragment, the capability is strongly consistent with session/auth cookie harvesting. The snippet is truncated/invalid at the end, reducing confidence in final cleanup and any unseen behavior beyond cookie extraction.
@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard
0.5.3-preview.126
by vansin
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This dependency-style module behaves as authenticated local automation that also performs explicit API response tampering: it reads a token from a local config file, injects it as an auth cookie, manipulates hub status payloads, and erases messages/tasks by returning empty arrays via Playwright routing. Even without evidence of outbound exfiltration, the combination of credential handling and intentional data manipulation strongly suggests security-sensitive misuse or sabotage capability. It should be restricted to trusted, controlled testing environments and not treated as benign automation without clear provenance and safeguards.
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Matteo Collina
Node.js maintainer, Fastify lead maintainer
So awesome to see @SocketSecurity launch with a fresh approach! Excited to have supported the team from the early days.
DC Posch
Director of Technology at AppFolio, CTO at Dynasty
This is going to be super important, especially for crypto projects where a compromised dependency results in stolen user assets.
Luis Naranjo
Software Engineer at Microsoft
If software supply chain attacks through npm don't scare the shit out of you, you're not paying close enough attention.
@SocketSecurity sounds like an awesome product. I'll be using socket.dev instead of npmjs.org to browse npm packages going forward
Elena Nadolinski
Founder and CEO at Iron Fish
Huge congrats to @SocketSecurity! 🙌
Literally the only product that proactively detects signs of JS compromised packages.
Joe Previte
Engineering Team Lead at Coder
Congrats to @feross and the @SocketSecurity team on their seed funding! 🚀 It's been a big help for us at @CoderHQ and we appreciate what y'all are doing!
Josh Goldberg
Staff Developer at Codecademy
This is such a great idea & looks fantastic, congrats & good luck @feross + team!
The best security teams in the world use Socket to get visibility into supply chain risk, and to build a security feedback loop into the development process.
Scott Roberts
CISO at UiPath
As a happy Socket customer, I've been impressed with how quickly they are adding value to the product, this move is a great step!
Yan Zhu
Head of Security at Brave, DEFCON, EFF, W3C
glad to hear some of the smartest people i know are working on (npm, etc.) supply chain security finally :). @SocketSecurity
Andrew Peterson
CEO and Co-Founder at Signal Sciences (acq. Fastly)
How do you track the validity of open source software libraries as they get updated? You're prob not. Check out @SocketSecurity and the updated tooling they launched.
Supply chain is a cluster in security as we all know and the tools from Socket are "duh" type tools to be implementing. Check them out and follow Feross Aboukhadijeh to see more updates coming from them in the future.
Zbyszek Tenerowicz
Senior Security Engineer at ConsenSys
socket.dev is getting more appealing by the hour
Devdatta Akhawe
Head of Security at Figma
The @SocketSecurity team is on fire! Amazing progress and I am exciting to see where they go next.
Sebastian Bensusan
Engineer Manager at Stripe
I find it surprising that we don't have _more_ supply chain attacks in software:
Imagine your airplane (the code running) was assembled (deployed) daily, with parts (dependencies) from internet strangers. How long until you get a bad part?
Excited for Socket to prevent this
Adam Baldwin
VP of Security at npm, Red Team at Auth0/Okta
Congrats to everyone at @SocketSecurity ❤️🤘🏻
Nico Waisman
CISO at Lyft
This is an area that I have personally been very focused on. As Nat Friedman said in the 2019 GitHub Universe keynote, Open Source won, and every time you add a new open source project you rely on someone else code and you rely on the people that build it.
This is both exciting and problematic. You are bringing real risk into your organization, and I'm excited to see progress in the industry from OpenSSF scorecards and package analyzers to the company that Feross Aboukhadijeh is building!
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Attackers have taken notice of the opportunity to attack organizations through open source dependencies. Supply chain attacks rose a whopping 700% in the past year, with over 15,000 recorded attacks.
Nov 23, 2025
Shai Hulud v2
Shai Hulud v2 campaign: preinstall script (setup_bun.js) and loader (setup_bin.js) that installs/locates Bun and executes an obfuscated bundled malicious script (bun_environment.js) with suppressed output.
Nov 05, 2025
Elves on npm
A surge of auto-generated "elf-stats" npm packages is being published every two minutes from new accounts. These packages contain simple malware variants and are being rapidly removed by npm. At least 420 unique packages have been identified, often described as being generated every two minutes, with some mentioning a capture the flag challenge or test.
Jul 04, 2025
RubyGems Automation-Tool Infostealer
Since at least March 2023, a threat actor using multiple aliases uploaded 60 malicious gems to RubyGems that masquerade as automation tools (Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Telegram, WordPress, and Naver). The gems display a Korean Glimmer-DSL-LibUI login window, then exfiltrate the entered username/password and the host's MAC address via HTTP POST to threat actor-controlled infrastructure.
Mar 13, 2025
North Korea's Contagious Interview Campaign
Since late 2024, we have tracked hundreds of malicious npm packages and supporting infrastructure tied to North Korea's Contagious Interview operation, with tens of thousands of downloads targeting developers and tech job seekers. The threat actors run a factory-style playbook: recruiter lures and fake coding tests, polished GitHub templates, and typosquatted or deceptive dependencies that install or import into real projects.
Jul 23, 2024
Network Reconnaissance Campaign
A malicious npm supply chain attack that leveraged 60 packages across three disposable npm accounts to fingerprint developer workstations and CI/CD servers during installation. Each package embedded a compact postinstall script that collected hostnames, internal and external IP addresses, DNS resolvers, usernames, home and working directories, and package metadata, then exfiltrated this data as a JSON blob to a hardcoded Discord webhook.
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