MAL-2026-10581 Malicious code in process-status-widget (npm)

[email protected] is an empty stub (index.js exports {}, empty author/description, suspicious version 99.9.1) whose sole material effect on install is to resolve its only declared dependency 'ltidisafe' from a direct HTTPS tarball URL — https://ltidi.storage.googleapis.com/depenconf/ltidisafe-3.4.1.tgz — rather than from the npm registry. Installing this package causes npm to fetch and install arbitrary code from that anonymous Google Cloud Storage bucket, bypassing registry-side scanning and any tie to a known publisher. The bucket contents are mutable at the operator's discretion, and any lifecycle scripts inside the fetched tarball execute on install. The package shape (empty main, external URL dep, no functionality of its own) matches a dependency-smuggling / hijack-vehicle pattern.

Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.