{"id":3407,"date":"2025-04-20T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/20\/rogue-npm-packages-mimic-telegram-bot-html\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T07:00:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T07:00:33","slug":"rogue-npm-packages-mimic-telegram-bot-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/20\/rogue-npm-packages-mimic-telegram-bot-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogue npm Packages Mimic Telegram Bot API to Plant SSH Backdoors on Linux Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Rogue npm Packages Mimic Telegram Bot API to Plant SSH Backdoors on Linux Systems<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 three malicious packages in the npm registry that masquerade as a popular Telegram bot library but harbor SSH backdoors and data exfiltration capabilities.<br \/>\nThe packages in question are listed below &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>node-telegram-utils (132 downloads)<br \/>\nnode-telegram-bots-api (82 downloads)<br \/>\nnode-telegram-util (73 downloads)<\/p>\n<p>According to supply chain<\/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\/2025\/04\/rogue-npm-packages-mimic-telegram-bot.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rogue npm Packages Mimic Telegram Bot API to Plant SSH Backdoors on Linux Systems Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered three malicious packages in the npm registry that masquerade as a popular Telegram bot library but harbor SSH backdoors and data exfiltration capabilities. The packages in question are listed below &#8211; node-telegram-utils (132 downloads) node-telegram-bots-api (82 downloads) [&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-3407","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\/3407"}],"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=3407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}