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Fake Web3 Accelerator Uses npm Packages to Spread Malware and Hijack AI Agent Traffic

Newseze Wire·Mon, Oct 19, 10:06 AMWire: The Hacker News
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Fake Web3 Accelerator Uses npm Packages to Spread Malware and Hijack AI Agent Traffic

A fake Web3 accelerator has been observed pushing information stealers and backdoors to Windows and macOS systems using malicious npm packages under the pretext of offering free artificial intelligence (AI) credits for Anthropic Claude a…

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