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Malicious npm Package Impersonates Popular Nodemailer, Puts 3.9M Weekly Downloads at Risk of Crypto Theft


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2025-09-01 08:52:07
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A sophisticated cryptocurrency theft scheme involving a malicious npm package that masquerades as the widely-used Nodemailer email library while secretly hijacking desktop cryptocurrency wallets on Windows systems. Socket’s Threat Research Team identified the malicious package, nodejs-smtp, which impersonates the legitimate Nodemailer library that averages approximately 3.9 million weekly downloads. The fraudulent package employs a clever […]


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