Attackers published 20 malicious npm packages impersonating legitimate Nomic Foundation and Hardhat plugins, where these packages, downloaded over 1,000 times, compromised development environments and potentially backdoored production systems and resulted in financial losses. They are utilizing Ethereum smart contracts, such as 0xa1b40044EBc2794f207D45143Bd82a1B86156c6b, to store and distribute Command & Control (C2) server addresses to compromised systems, […]

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