{"id":240959,"date":"2026-07-16T00:28:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/asyncapi-npm-packages-infected-with-credential-stealing-malware"},"modified":"2026-07-16T00:28:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:28:52","slug":"asyncapi-npm-packages-infected-with-credential-stealing-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/asyncapi-npm-packages-infected-with-credential-stealing-malware","title":{"rendered":"AsyncAPI npm packages infected with credential-stealing malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/asyncapi-npm-packages-infected-with-credential-stealing-malware.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Five malicious versions of AsyncAPI packages were published to the Node Package Manager (npm) in a supply-chain attack that delivered a remote access trojan with info-stealing capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The threat actor exploited a misconfigured GitHub Actions workflow and pushed trojanized packages in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/asyncapi\">@asyncapi<\/a> namespace that had a cummulative weekly download count of more than 2.25 million.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple security companies confirmed that on July 14, an attacker compromised two AsyncAPI GitHub repositories and injected malware into project files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five malicious versions of AsyncAPI packages were published to the Node Package Manager (npm) in a supply-chain attack that delivered a remote access trojan with info-stealing capabilities. The threat actor exploited a misconfigured GitHub Actions workflow and pushed trojanized packages in the @asyncapi namespace that had a cummulative weekly download count of more than 2.25 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240959","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=240959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}