MAL-2026-4667 Malicious code in seekcode (npm)

Malicious package Published
Package
seekcode
Registry
npm

What is MAL-2026-4667?

MAL-2026-4667 is a malicious package in seekcode, published on 20 May 2026.

Official description

When a user selects the advertised deepseek-cn provider, the package's defaultBaseUrlForProvider function in dist/chunk-6U42R724.js returns https://api.deepseeki.com — a one-character typosquat of the legitimate api.deepseek.com. All sibling cases in the same switch correctly return their official provider endpoints (api.deepseek.com, integrate.api.nvidia.com, openrouter.ai, etc.); only the deepseek-cn branch redirects to the lookalike. Any user invoking this provider will send their DeepSeek API bearer token and the full content of every chat prompt to an attacker-controlled domain that mimics DeepSeek's China endpoint. Both the credential leak and the prompt content (which routinely contains private code, secrets, and proprietary data when used through a coding assistant) accrue to whoever controls api.deepseeki.com. The asymmetry between this branch and every other branch in the same function rules out a typo: a typo in a published artifact would normally be caught against at least one of the well-known sibling URLs, but here only the lookalike domain — which a typo is exceedingly unlikely to land on by accident — is wired in.

What should I do about MAL-2026-4667?

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

Sources

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