{"id":4505,"date":"2025-06-08T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/08\/malicious-npm-packages-posing-as-utilities-delete-project-directories\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T10:00:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T10:00:34","slug":"malicious-npm-packages-posing-as-utilities-delete-project-directories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/08\/malicious-npm-packages-posing-as-utilities-delete-project-directories\/","title":{"rendered":"Malicious npm packages posing as utilities delete project directories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Malicious npm packages posing as utilities delete project directories<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Two malicious packages have been discovered in the npm JavaScript package index, which masquerades as useful utilities but, in reality, are destructive data wipers that delete entire application directories. [&#8230;]<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bill Toulas<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/malicious-npm-packages-posing-as-utilities-delete-project-directories\/\">Go to bleepingcomputer<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malicious npm packages posing as utilities delete project directories Two malicious packages have been discovered in the npm JavaScript package index, which masquerades as useful utilities but, in reality, are destructive data wipers that delete entire application directories. [&#8230;] Bill Toulas Go to bleepingcomputer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,133],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-4505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bleepingcomputer","category-security","tag-bleepingcomputer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505"}],"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=4505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}