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Rogue npm Packages Mimic Telegram Bot API to Plant SSH Backdoors on Linux Systems

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered three malicious packages in the npm registry that masquerade as a popular Telegram bot library but harbor SSH backdoors and data exfiltration capabilities.
The packages in question are listed below –

node-telegram-utils (132 downloads)
node-telegram-bots-api (82 downloads)
node-telegram-util (73 downloads)

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