{"id":231242,"date":"2026-02-13T01:18:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T07:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/lazarus-campaign-plants-malicious-packages-in-npm-and-pypi-ecosystems"},"modified":"2026-02-13T01:18:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T07:18:33","slug":"lazarus-campaign-plants-malicious-packages-in-npm-and-pypi-ecosystems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/lazarus-campaign-plants-malicious-packages-in-npm-and-pypi-ecosystems","title":{"rendered":"Lazarus Campaign Plants Malicious Packages in npm and PyPI Ecosystems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lazarus-campaign-plants-malicious-packages-in-npm-and-pypi-ecosystems2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a fresh set of malicious packages across npm and the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository linked to a fake recruitment-themed campaign orchestrated by the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group.<\/p>\n<p>The coordinated campaign has been codenamed graphalgo in reference to the first package published in the npm registry. It\u2019s assessed to be active since May 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDevelopers are approached via social platforms like LinkedIn and Facebook, or through job offerings on forums like Reddit,\u201d ReversingLabs researcher Karlo Zanki <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reversinglabs.com\/blog\/fake-recruiter-campaign-crypto-devs\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a report. \u201cThe campaign includes a well-orchestrated story around a company involved in blockchain and cryptocurrency exchanges.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a fresh set of malicious packages across npm and the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository linked to a fake recruitment-themed campaign orchestrated by the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group. The coordinated campaign has been codenamed graphalgo in reference to the first package published in the npm registry. It\u2019s assessed to be active [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3818,1761,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blockchains","category-cryptocurrencies","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}