{"id":12499,"date":"2026-04-30T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/new-wave-of-dprk-attacks-uses-ai-html\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T07:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:04:00","slug":"new-wave-of-dprk-attacks-uses-ai-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/new-wave-of-dprk-attacks-uses-ai-html\/","title":{"rendered":"New Wave of DPRK Attacks Uses AI-Inserted npm Malware, Fake Firms, and RATs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    New Wave of DPRK Attacks Uses AI-Inserted npm Malware, Fake Firms, and RATs<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malicious code in an npm package after a malicious package as a dependency to the project by Anthropic&#8217;s Claude Opus large language model (LLM).<br \/>\nThe package in question is &#8220;@validate-sdk\/v2,&#8221; which is listed on npm as a utility software development kit (SDK) for hashing, validation, encoding\/decoding, and secure random generation. However, its real<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/new-wave-of-dprk-attacks-uses-ai.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Wave of DPRK Attacks Uses AI-Inserted npm Malware, Fake Firms, and RATs Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malicious code in an npm package after a malicious package as a dependency to the project by Anthropic&#8217;s Claude Opus large language model (LLM). The package in question is &#8220;@validate-sdk\/v2,&#8221; which is listed on npm as a utility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-12499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}