Claimed Bug Bounty Hunter Likely Used LLM to Build PhantomRaven npm Stealer
A financially motivated threat actor has been linked to the development and distribution of a JavaScript (JS)-based information stealer known as PhantomRaven via the npm package registry. "The developer likely wrote the malware using a l…
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