alt.hn

5/23/2026 at 1:18:56 AM

Malicious Postinstall Hook Found in 700 GitHub Repos, Including Node Projects

https://socket.dev/blog/malicious-postinstall-hook-found-across-700-github-repos

by 882542F3884314B

5/23/2026 at 4:35:29 AM

Postinstall hooks are a footgun. The bad part here is that people reviewing a PHP package may not even look closely at package.json.

by kspetkov79

5/23/2026 at 3:56:35 AM

Title is somewhat misleading. "Node projects" mean projects using nodejs as opposed to projects under the Node.js org.

by nullsex

5/23/2026 at 2:57:41 AM

How many more examples of malware postinstall scripts do we need before Node quits running them by default, without warning?

by tedchs

5/23/2026 at 3:39:02 AM

[dead]

by nullsex

5/23/2026 at 1:37:13 AM

All Composer packages (but the malicious part is in the node dependency)

Effected*

> Use effect as a noun to refer to a change resulting from something.

by gnabgib

5/23/2026 at 3:20:27 PM

[flagged]

by ryanshrott