{
  "id": 15601168,
  "title": "Fake Web3 Accelerator Uses npm Packages to Spread Malware and Hijack AI Agent Traffic",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/19/fake-web3-accelerator-uses-npm-packages-to-spread-malware-and-hijack",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-19T10:06:40.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/fake-web3-accelerator-uses-npm-packages.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A fake Web3 accelerator has been observed pushing information stealers and backdoors to Windows and macOS systems using malicious npm packages under the pretext of offering free artificial intelligence (AI) credits for Anthropic Claude and Google Gemini, coding tools, and security audits. \"The tools delivered information-stealing malware and backdoors for macOS and Windows machines,\" Elastic",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}