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Hugging Face Hiding Second-Stage Malware for npm Supply Chain Attack

ID: 839b6ce3-3661-5c31-9ffa-94f11381b931

STIX ID: report--839b6ce3-3661-5c31-9ffa-94f11381b931

Feed Name: DataBreaches.Net

Threat Score
90/100

Date Published: 2026-05-22

Date Updated: 2026-05-22

Author: Dissent

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A threat actor linked to North Korea reportedly weaponized the Hugging Face AI platform by embedding second-stage malware and using it as a delivery and live data-exfiltration backend; the campaign began with a malicious npm package, "terminal-logger-utils," which targeted software developers worldwide in a supply-chain attack.

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