
PhantomRaven returns to npm with 88 bad packages
Last year’s “PhantomRaven” supply-chain campaign is back, with security researchers uncovering 88 new malicious packages in what they describe as the second, third, and fourth waves of the operation. According to Endor Labs findings, the newly discovered packages were published between November 2025 and February 2026, with 81 of them still available on npm along with two active command and control (c2) servers. “PhantomRaven is a software supply chain attack that uses Remote Dynamic Dependencies (RDD) to hide credential-stealing malware in non-registry dependencies that bypass standard security scanning,” the researchers said in a blog post. “The first wave affecting 126+ packages with over ...