NPM just got hit by another supply chain mess. Attackers uploaded 126 credential-stealing packages that used “Remote Dynamic Dependencies” to quietly fetch malware from untrusted sites. Over 86,000 downloads later, the campaign (dubbed PhantomRaven) shows how blind traditional scanning still is to dynamic or AI-generated code patterns. What makes this dangerous isn’t just the malicious code, it’s the infrastructure gap. Dependencies downloaded “fresh” on install mean attackers can serve clean code to researchers and poison code to production networks. That’s targeted compromise at scale.
⚠️ 126 malicious NPM packages
🧠 Exploits Remote Dynamic Dependencies
🎯 Targets CI/CD environments
🔐 Invisible to static analysis tools
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