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node-ipc npm Distribution Compromised (Campaign)

ID: 11c667a5-a9f9-5165-b2a0-a105154b28ec

STIX ID: report--11c667a5-a9f9-5165-b2a0-a105154b28ec

Feed Name: Wiz Cloud Threat Landscape

Threat Score
80/100

Date Published: 2026-05-14

Date Updated: 2026-05-20

Author: [email protected] (Wiz Threat Research)

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**Executive summary:** On 14 May 2026 trojanized versions of the node-ipc npm package ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected]) were published following a likely maintainer account compromise; the injected code collects a wide range of environment, network and developer secrets, writes them to a tar.gz archive and exfiltrates the data using DNS TXT tunneling to a resolved IP, then exits without persisting.

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