NPM package ‘is’ with 2.8M weekly downloads infected devs with malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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[-] freewheel@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Little late to the party here, and I'm not primarily a js dev, but... yes. It looks like it's one of those syntactic sugar kind of packages that devs love to use. The bonus here is you can probably use a find-grep kind of process to check package-lock.json for references to the package. (there might be an npm command, but like I say - not a js dev.)

For example:

$ grep \"is\"\: package-lock.json
        "is": "^3.3.0",

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