PolinRider Loader Reappears in Hijacked npm Packages

TL;DR Sonatype Research Labs identified concealed runtime loaders in 12 npm releases across 10 hijacked packages. All 12 releases contain loaders designed to decode payload-server IP addresses from Ethereum transactions sent by the same hard-coded wallet previously reported in PolinRider activity, then retrieve, XOR-decode, and execute JavaScript. Six conceal the loader in eval(atob(...)); six use a character-permuta…

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