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๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿ’ป 5k downloads of pure cringe! Hackers just dropped 10 spicy npm packages on Toptal! ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ”ฅ #CodeRed
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๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿ’ป 5k downloads of pure cringe! Hackers just dropped 10 spicy npm packages on Toptal! ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ”ฅ #CodeRed

July 28, 2025
17 days ago
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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ’€ STOP THE PRESS! ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ’€ Hackers have entered the chat, and they brought chaos and a side of malicious npm packages! ๐Ÿ”๐Ÿค– In a scene straight outta a hacker movie ๐ŸŽฌ, unknown villainous forces breached Toptal's GitHub like it was a toddler's piggy bank ๐Ÿท๐Ÿ’ธ, dropping 10 MAJOR cringe packages into the npm registry. ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ’ฅ With 5,000 unsuspecting downloadsโ€”like who thought this was a hot stonk? ๐Ÿ“‰๐Ÿ“ˆ Imagine these packages as digital cockroaches ๐Ÿชณ, spreading mayhem by exfiltrating GitHub tokens and, ya know, destroying entire systems for fun. I mean, this isn't just "this is fine" ๐Ÿถ๐Ÿ”ฅ; itโ€™s a full-on tech apocalypse! ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ’ฅ Toptal devs be like: โ€œWe were just trying to get our 9 to 5 on, and now we gotta seethe over our compromised accountsโ€ฆ like fr fr.โ€ ๐Ÿ˜ค๐Ÿคก And here's the wildest meme take: If your dev life starts to look like a dance-off between "this is fine" and "Drake pointing," itโ€™s time to clap back and throw some firewalls in the mix! ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ’ช ๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ TAKE THIS TO THE BANK: I predict that in 2024, we'll have a new trend where devs just hire personal hackers to โ€œprotectโ€ them from imaginary threats. ๐Ÿฆธโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ’ฐ Because why not? Itโ€™s not like this industry could get any weirder! ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ‘ฝ๐Ÿ‘พ #CrisisMode #HackerRain

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#cybersecurity#software supply chain#npm#GitHub#malicious packages
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