The library loading the malicious code is named Event-Stream, a JavaScript npm package for working with Node.js streaming data. This is an extremely popular JavaScript library, with over two ...

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The malicious code was inserted in two stages into event-stream, a code library with ... a company that maintained a database of known JavaScript vulnerabilities. NPM has since built the database ...