Half of npm Packages Vulnerable to Old-School Weapon: the ‘Shift’ Key

Since 2017, hackers have been able to mimic legitimate packages on Node Package Manager (npm) by simply removing the capital letters in their titles. According to newly published research from Checkmarx, npm had for years failed to account for this form of typosquatting, which could have led to enterprises inadvertently downloading malware.

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