Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm about what has been described as “malicious activity” in newly published versions of node-ipc.According to Socket and StepSecurity, three different versions of the npm package have been confirmed as malicious -node-ipc@9.1.6node-ipc@9.2.3node-ipc@12.0.1“Early analysis indicates that node-ipc@9.1.6, node-ipc@9.2.3, and node-ipc@12.0.1
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