Malicious Postinstall Hook Found in 700 GitHub Repos, Including Node Projects

gnabgib

All Composer packages (but the malicious part is in the node dependency) Effected* > Use effect as a noun to refer to a change resulting from something.

tedchs

How many more examples of malware postinstall scripts do we need before Node quits running them by default, without warning?

nullsex

Title is somewhat misleading. "Node projects" mean projects using nodejs as opposed to projects under the Node.js org.

kspetkov79

Postinstall hooks are a footgun. The bad part here is that people reviewing a PHP package may not even look closely at package.json.