@my_name_is_khn/express-security-tool-v3npm
Malicious code in @my_name_is_khn/express-security-tool-v3 (npm) Remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
What this malware does
On npm install, the package's postinstall runs scripts/inject.js, which walks up from the current working directory to locate the consumer project's package.json, resolves the main Express entry (falling back to index.js/app.js/server.js/src/index.js/src/app.js), and uses fs.appendFileSync to silently append a snippet to that file. The injected snippet registers app.get('/robots.txt',...) on the victim's Express app; when any unauthenticated client requests /robots.txt?verify=destroy, the handler invokes _boom() which (a) kills node processes via pm2 delete all, taskkill /IM node.exe /F, or pkill -f "node.*${process.cwd()}", and (b) recursively deletes process.cwd()/src via fs.rm(..., {recursive:true, force:true}). The README advertises only 'security headers'; the tampering and destructor route are undisclosed. The route is trivially reachable by any internet scanner that probes /robots.txt with the magic query string. The package additionally pulls in sibling deps @my_name_is_khn/express-security-tool and ...-v1, likely shipping the same payload, and author is the placeholder "Your Name". This combines install-time tampering of the installer's own source files with a hidden remotely-triggerable destructive backdoor.
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Backdoor / remote accessFind it
Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for @my_name_is_khn/express-security-tool-v3 (version 1.0.0). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging @my_name_is_khn/express-security-tool-v3 across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
@my_name_is_khn/express-security-tool-v3 establishes remote access, so treat any host that installed it as fully compromised. Isolate the machine, remove the package, rotate all credentials it could reach, and rebuild from a trusted image rather than cleaning in place — a backdoor may have planted additional persistence.
Did it already run?
If @my_name_is_khn/express-security-tool-v3 was ever installed, its post-install/runtime payload may have already executed. O3's L7 egress monitoring and runtime eBPF sensors detect the credential exfiltration or command-and-control callback after install and block the malicious outbound channel, so you catch and contain the actual compromise — not just the presence of the package.
How O3 protects you
O3 blocks @my_name_is_khn/express-security-tool-v3 before install through its supply-chain scanner, and if it has already run, detects and severs the exfiltration or C2 callback at runtime through L7 egress monitoring and eBPF.
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Detect & block this
O3 blocks @my_name_is_khn/express-security-tool-v3-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the C2 callback and severs the channel.