The Contagious Interview operation continues to weaponize the npm registry with a repeatable playbook. Since our July 14, 2025 update, we have identified and analyzed more than 338 malicious packages with over 50,000 cumulative downloads.

25 of these packages remain live on the npm registry at the time of writing. We have submitted takedown requests to the npm security team and petitioned for suspension of the associated publisher accounts.

In this latest wave, North Korean threat actors used more than 180 fake personas tied to new npm aliases and registration emails, and ran over a dozen command and control (C2) endpoints (see IOCs). Their tooling has evolved from direct BeaverTail malw…

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