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New Wave of DPRK Attacks Uses AI-Inserted npm Malware, Fake Firms, and RATs

Published Apr 29, 2026

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malicious code in an npm package after a malicious package as a dependency to the project by Anthropic's Claude Opus large language model (LLM). The package in question is "@validate-sdk/v2," which is listed on npm as a utility software development kit (SDK) for hashing, validation, encoding/decoding, and secure random generation. However, its real

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