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Within one hour, 15 real systems downloaded and executed it. One victim was a security company's malware scanner, whose credentials were exfiltrated and used to pivot deeper into its infrastructure. No human attacker was involved at any step. The post analyzes the attack chain — registry trust, install-time code execution, and credential exfiltration — and argues that defenses must live on the consumer side: screening packages before they reach builds, isolating detonation environments, and monitoring runtime egress to block credential theft. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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