{"id":13936,"date":"2026-06-29T07:03:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T07:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/hijacked-npm-and-go-packages-use-vs-html\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T07:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T07:03:59","slug":"hijacked-npm-and-go-packages-use-vs-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/hijacked-npm-and-go-packages-use-vs-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Hijacked npm and Go Packages Use VS Code Tasks to Deploy Python Infostealer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Hijacked npm and Go Packages Use VS Code Tasks to Deploy Python Infostealer<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 uncovered two hijacked npm packages and a cluster of Go packages that are designed to deploy a Python-based information stealer on compromised Windows, Linux, and macOS hosts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This attack avoids the most common npm execution paths through lifecycle scripts, perhaps in an attempt to remain &#8216;compatible&#8217; with npm v12&#8217;s security hardenings,&#8221; JFrog said in a<\/p><\/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\/06\/hijacked-npm-and-go-packages-use-vs.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hijacked npm and Go Packages Use VS Code Tasks to Deploy Python Infostealer Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered two hijacked npm packages and a cluster of Go packages that are designed to deploy a Python-based information stealer on compromised Windows, Linux, and macOS hosts. &#8220;This attack avoids the most common npm execution paths through lifecycle scripts, [&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-13936","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\/13936"}],"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=13936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}