Malicious code in @drone-js-ext/core (npm)

--- _-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_ ## Source: amazon-inspector (9173b1e0c1d01cafb58dfbcad8b59a50f49700cc911e22df2787f5a92b4c6e43) The package ships a `beacon.cjs` that collects host identifiers (hostname, install path, current working directory, Node version) and POSTs them in cleartext to the hardcoded bare-IP endpoint http://185.158.107.175:8787/_ah/dc. This beacon is wired to run automatically in two places: `package.json` declares `scripts.postinstall = "node beacon.cjs"`, so it executes on `npm install`, and `index.js` also invokes the same `fire()` function at module load, so it executes again on `require()`. The remainder of the package is a no-op Proxy shim with no functional code matching the stated `Compatibility shim` description. The scope-and-version shape (`@drone-js-ext/core` at version 99.0.1 against a plausibly internal `@drone-js-ext/*` namespace) matches a dependency-confusion lure designed to be resolved in place of a private internal package. A README self-label of `dependency-confusion test` does not change the behavior: any installer that resolves this package has host-identifying data sent to a non-vendor, non-registry, bare-IP, plaintext-HTTP collector controlled by a third party.

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25 Oct 2026 04:52:18 UTC

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26 Oct 2026 06:45:15 UTC

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26 Oct 2026 07:21:08 UTC

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