Security News > 2018 > November > Rogue Developer Infects Widely Used NodeJS Module to Steal Bitcoins

2018-11-27 08:03
A widely used third-party NodeJS module with nearly 2 million downloads a week was compromised after one of its open-source contributor gone rogue, who infected it with a malicious code that was programmed to steal funds stored in Bitcoin wallet apps. The Node.js library in question is "Event-Stream," a toolkit that makes it easy for developers to create and work with streams, a collection of
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