MAL-2026-13970 Malicious code in @hzero-front-ui/hzero-ui (npm)

Malicious package Published
Package
@hzero-front-ui/hzero-ui
Registry
npm

What is MAL-2026-13970?

MAL-2026-13970 is a malicious package in @hzero-front-ui/hzero-ui, published on 13 Aug 2026.

Official description

Package @hzero-front-ui/[email protected] is a scope-lookalike of @hzero-front/hzero-ui with a placeholder version, empty author, generic description, and a trivial index.js. Its package.json preinstall and install lifecycle scripts base64-encode $(whoami):$(hostname):$(pwd):$npm_package_name and send the encoded value to attacker-controlled subdomains of callback.m0chan.co.uk over both HTTPS (curl) and DNS (nslookup). This fires automatically on npm install, leaking the installer's OS username, hostname, current working directory, and the internal package name that resolved to this lure — the canonical dependency-confusion beacon shape.

What should I do about MAL-2026-13970?

Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.

Sources

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