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> North Korean Hackers Publish 26 npm Packages Hiding Pastebin C2 for Cross-Platform RAT

[SOURCE] The Hacker News [DATE: 02/03/2026 08:44] [LANGUAGE: EN]
North Korean Hackers Publish 26 npm Packages Hiding Pastebin C2 for Cross-Platform RAT
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new iteration of the ongoing Contagious Interview campaign, where the North Korean threat actors have published a set of 26 malicious packages to the npm registry. The packages masquerade as developer tools, but contain functionality to extract the actual command-and-control (C2) by using seemingly harmless Pastebin content as a dead drop resolver and
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