World domination (how-to)

[OpenSourceNomad]

@lrvick at mastodon.social

1. Buy expired NPM maintainer email domains.
2. Re-create maintainer emails
3. Take over packages
4. Submit legitimate security patches that include package.json version bumps to malicious dependency you pushed
5. Enjoy world domination.

@lrvick at mastodon.social

I just noticed "foreach" on npm is controlled by a single maintainer.

I also noticed they let their personal email domain expire, so I bought it before someone else did.

I now control "foreach" on NPM, and the 36826 projects that depend on it.

Fällt mir eigentlich nur dieses xkcd zu ein:

[OpenSourceNomad]

npm kann jetzt endlich auch webauth ("passwordless" auth) https://github.blog/2022-05-10-enhanced-2fa-experience-for-your-npm-account/ (müssen die maintainer aber natürlich selber aktivieren, für verwaiste Accounts ist das also leider keine Hilfe...)