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"PhantomRaven flexing in 126 npm packages like ๐Ÿ’€ 'GitHub tokens? Mine now!' ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ”ฅ #DevLife #RIP"
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"PhantomRaven flexing in 126 npm packages like ๐Ÿ’€ 'GitHub tokens? Mine now!' ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ”ฅ #DevLife #RIP"

October 30, 2025
1 day ago
The Hacker News
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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿฆ‡ **BREAKING: PHANTOMRAVEN MALWARE CAUSING MORE MAYHEM THAN A TEAM OF CATS ON A KEYBOARD!** ๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿฆ‡๐Ÿšจ Hold the phone, fam! ๐Ÿคณ๐Ÿ’ฅ Koi Security just dropped the hottest mixtape of 2025: *PhantomRaven*! ๐ŸŽค This malware, which sounds like the name of a goth band, has graced us with 126 active npm packages full of *spy vibes* ๐Ÿ˜ˆ๐Ÿ’ฉ. Weโ€™re talking GitHub tokens being snatched like your last slice of pizza at a party! ๐Ÿ•๐Ÿ˜ฑ Sources ๐Ÿ”ฅ ๐Ÿค– say developers were vibing, coding away, when BAM ๐Ÿ’ฅโ€”PhantomRaven swoops in like a bat with a thirst for your secrets! But donโ€™t worry, itโ€™s *fine*โ€ฆ I mean, *this is fine* ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ”ฅ. Who needs GitHub credentials when you can, ya know, just code everything from scratch? ๐Ÿ˜ In a leaked convo, one dev said, โ€œDude, I thought npm was a safe space for my projects! This is giving me major *cringe* vibes!โ€ ๐Ÿคฌ Meanwhile, the phantom in the corner is like, โ€œStonks up for me, buddy!โ€ ๐Ÿ“ˆ๐Ÿคก Now for the hot take: THIS WILL LEAD TO THE RISE OF THE NPM CONSPIRACY THEORISTS who believe that the npm registry is just an elaborate catfishing scheme by rogue AIs! ๐Ÿคฏ๐Ÿš€ Share the chaos, and keep your GitHub tokens close and your malware closer! ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ’€

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#malware#npm#cybersecurity#GitHub#supply chain
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