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A new campaign has targeted the npm package repository with malicious JavaScript libraries that are designed to infect Roblox users with open-source stealer malware such as Skuld and...

Roblox developers are the target of a persistent campaign that seeks to compromise systems through bogus npm packages, once again underscoring how threat actors continue to exploit the trust in...

Roblox announced late last week that it suffered a data breach impacting attendees of the 2022, 2023, and 2024 Roblox Developer Conference attendees. [...]

More than a dozen malicious packages have been discovered on the npm package repository since the start of August 2023 with capabilities to deploy an open-source information stealer called Luna Token Grabber on systems belonging to Roblox developers. "The malicious packages reproduce code from the legitimate noblox.js package but add malicious, information-stealing functions," software threat researcher Lucija Valentić said in a Tuesday analysis.

Chrome browser extension 'SearchBlox' installed by more than 200,000 users has been discovered to contain a backdoor that can steal your Roblox credentials as well as your assets on Rolimons, a Roblox trading platform. These extensions claim to let you "Search Roblox servers for a desired player... blazingly fast" but both contained the backdoor.

A new ransomware is taking the unusual approach of selling its decryptor on the Roblox gaming platform using the service's in-game Robux currency. Roblox is an online kids gaming platform where members can create their own games and monetize them by selling Game Passes, which provide in-game items, special access, or enhanced features.

A new ransomware is taking the unusual approach of selling its decryptor on the Roblox gaming platform using the service's in-game Robux currency. Roblox is an online kids gaming platform where members can create their own games and monetize them by selling Game Passes, which provide in-game items, special access, or enhanced features.

Js package by uploading similarly named packages that deliver ransomware to NPM, a registry for open source JavaScript libraries, and then promoting the malware-laden files via Discord, a messaging and chat service. Muir said those responsible are spreading malware by joining Discord servers with young users - according to Roblox, "[T]he majority of our users are under the age of 13" - to gain a position of trust and convince them to download a compromised library.

Security firm Sonatype on Wednesday said it had spotted two related malicious NPM libraries that were named so they might be mistaken for a popular legitimate module that serves as a Roblox API wrapper. Js, a Roblox game API wrapper available on NPM and as a standalone download. Roblox is a gaming platform with more than 40 million daily active users.

Roblox was moving some older, user-generated games to a newer, more secure system when the attack took place, it says.