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CEO spills the Tea about massive token farming campaigns

ID: 2af69bef-b30c-5565-b0a0-f402942790be

STIX ID: report--2af69bef-b30c-5565-b0a0-f402942790be

Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
65/100

Date Published: 2025-12-17

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Jessica Lyons

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The article reports that attackers exploited Tea Protocol's incentive program to flood open-source registries (notably npm) with spam packages—first thousands, then tens to hundreds of thousands—aimed at farming Tea tokens; this large-scale registry pollution exposed supply-chain risks and prompted the Tea team to redesign provenance, ownership checks, Sybil detection, and integration with package verification tools to prevent future abuse.

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