> New Wave of DPRK Attacks Uses AI-Inserted npm Malware, Fake Firms, and RATs
[DATE: 29/04/2026 14:43]
[LANGUAGE: EN]
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malicious code in an npm package after a malicious package as a dependency to the project by Anthropic's Claude Opus large language model (LLM).
The package in question is "@validate-sdk/v2," which is listed on npm as a utility software development kit (SDK) for hashing, validation, encoding/decoding, and secure random generation. However, its real