Rogue npm Packages Mimic Telegram Bot API to Plant SSH Backdoors on Linux Systems

Cyber Security Starts Here

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered three malicious packages in the npm registry that masquerade as a popular Telegram bot library but harbor SSH backdoors and data exfiltration capabilities.
The packages in question are listed below –

node-telegram-utils (132 downloads)
node-telegram-bots-api (82 downloads)
node-telegram-util (73 downloads)

According to supply chain

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