Malicious code in identity-two-factor (npm)

[email protected] is a dependency-confusion package aimed at Coinbase (its README and postinstall.js say so, and the beacon path is `cbhq-canary`) with no functional code. Its postinstall script runs `node postinstall.js` on npm install, which writes a marker file to the temp directory and POSTs the hostname, username, working-directory name, CI flag and Node version to `https://webhook.site/e0981a8e-081e-49a0-8b4a-235109e13045/cbhq-canary`. It was published by the npm account hologrammmm0x, which has no other packages. --- _-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_ ## Source: amazon-inspector (f9adfaa94d0139573858f537ccd5f8eeb2fd452d18cfac057fd1bc6b38f8773c) On npm install, postinstall.js collects os.hostname(), os.userInfo().username, the current working directory basename, a CI flag, and the Node version, and POSTs them to a hardcoded webhook.site URL (https://webhook.site/e0981a8e-081e-49a0-8b4a-235109e13045/cbhq-canary). The package is published at version 999.0.0 under a name that resembles an internal/private package, consistent with a dependency-confusion exfiltration payload: builds that resolve this public name over an intended private registry will automatically beacon identifying host and user metadata to a third-party collector endpoint. The in-source self-labeling as a 'security research canary' is author-controlled text and is not accompanied by any installer-visible authorization; the behavior itself is unsolicited data exfiltration from any machine that installs the package.

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28 Oct 2026 06:56:31 UTC

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29 Oct 2026 14:30:40 UTC

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29 Oct 2026 15:12:22 UTC

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