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Aug 07 2025 Fake WhatsApp developer libraries hide destructive data-wiping code

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Two malicious NPM packages posing as WhatsApp development tools have been discovered deploying destructive data-wiping code that recursively deletes files on a developer's computers. [...]

Posted by Bill Toulas on Thu 07 August 2025 in BleepingComputer.

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