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"26k devs just got Rickrolled by 175 malicious npm packages. Credential phishing on a budget! ๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿ’ธ #F๐Ÿ˜ฑ"
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"26k devs just got Rickrolled by 175 malicious npm packages. Credential phishing on a budget! ๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿ’ธ #F๐Ÿ˜ฑ"

October 10, 2025
15 days ago
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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ”ฅ **BREAKING: npm Packages Are Out Here Phishing Like It's 2099!** ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿšจ Ladies and gentlecoders, grab your keyboards โ€™cause itโ€™s time to spill some TEA โ˜•๏ธ, and no, itโ€™s not the ๐Ÿต kind! Cybersecurity sleuths have unearthed **175 sinister npm packages** ๐Ÿฅท that have been phishing for your credentials like theyโ€™re the last fries in the McDonald's bag. ๐ŸŸ๐Ÿ’€ These shady apps have been downloaded a staggering **26,000 times**! Like, come on, bro, are we STILL trusting random code like it's an ex who ghosted us?! ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ™ƒ This malicious master plan, codenamed **Beamglea** (sounds like a bad sci-fi movie, tbh) has been targetting over **135 companies**. Thatโ€™s more breaches than my friendโ€™s Tinder account! ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ’” Imagine the devs behind these packages sitting in their dark basements, munching on stale Cheetos, and going, โ€œDude, this is the start of my empire! ๐Ÿ’ฐ๐Ÿ’ฐโ€ News flash, champ! Your empire will crumble like the last crumb of a cookie! ๐Ÿช๐Ÿ’ฅ ๐Ÿค–๐Ÿ’ฌ โ€œWe thought about making it less malicious, but then weโ€™d have to get real jobs!โ€ - *Unnamed Developer #1* Fr fr, tech companies need to stop feeding us cringe software that gives โ€œthis is fineโ€ vibes when EVERY coder knows about the *npm black hole*. ๐Ÿ•ณ๏ธโœจ So here's my hot take: the next TikTok trend will be devs *dancing* to "Iโ€™m in your npm" while dodging phishing attacks! Yโ€™all better watch out! ๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿ”ฅ #CodeOrDie

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#npm#cybersecurity#phishing#malware#credential harvesting
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