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WeaselBiscuit Stealer Spreads via 13 npm Packages to Harvest Chrome Extension Storage

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of 13 npm packages that have been found to deliver a previously undocumented JavaScript stealer codenamed WeaselBiscuit. The new malware family, per OpenSourceMalware, exhibits functional overlaps with two malware strains associated with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) Contagious Interview campaign: BeaverTail and

WeaselBiscuit Stealer Spreads via 13 npm Packages to Harvest Chrome Extension Storage

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The People Who Understand Our Oldest Systems Retire Before It Does

The application that calculates what we owe and what we are owed went live in 1998. It is reliable, it is cheap to run, and its replacement has been proposed and deferred in four separate planning…

  • The financial system application launched in 1998 remains reliable and cost-effective.
  • Only four people understand the system, with an average age of fifty-six.

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