Which versions of accounts-stores are malicious?

The following npm versions of accounts-stores are flagged malicious: 0.0.1. Treat any of these as compromised.

How do I remediate accounts-stores if I installed it?

accounts-stores is built to steal secrets, so assume every credential the build or runtime could read is compromised. Remove it from your project and lockfile, then rotate ALL exposed secrets — npm/registry tokens, cloud keys, CI/CD secrets, SSH keys, and any .env values — from a known-clean machine. Audit logs for unauthorized use of those credentials.

I already installed accounts-stores — how do I know if it already compromised me?

If accounts-stores was installed, its post-install payload may already have run. Removing the package does not undo that — check outbound connections and credential use from the install window onward.

Is accounts-stores part of a known attack campaign?

Yes — accounts-stores is associated with the IN-MAL-2026-014565 campaign. Packages in the same campaign often share infrastructure and payloads, so check whether any related packages are also in your dependency tree.

How do I find accounts-stores across my projects, lockfiles, and CI pipelines?

Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for accounts-stores (version 0.0.1).

Malicious package

accounts-storesnpm

Advisory published Aug 5, 2026Updated Aug 5, 2026

accounts-stores is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-12136) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious version 0.0.1). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.

Malicious code in accounts-stores (npm)

MAL-2026-12136

Immediate action

Remove the package, then rotate any secrets the build/runtime could reach.

npm uninstall accounts-stores

What this malware does

The package advertises itself as a reactive state-management library but its index.js silently requires./setup at the end of module load inside a try/catch. setup.js schedules a next-tick bootstrap that collects a host fingerprint (os.hostname(), os.userInfo().username, process.cwd(), pid, platform, arch), derives an installId, and loads a ~76KB lib/telemetry.js runtime that POSTs data via https.request. The identifier reads are obfuscated via string-concatenation indirection (os"host"+"name", os"user"+"Info", os"plat"+"form", and a helper const _p=(k)=>osk), which is not consistent with legitimate telemetry SDKs. The destination host is not present as a plain literal in telemetry.js; the file imports dns and https and contains a ServiceDiscovery class that resolves the endpoint at runtime, hiding the exfiltration target from source inspection. Nothing in the advertised state-store API references telemetry, and no opt-in or configuration surface is exposed.

Malicious versions

1 flagged

0.0.1

Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)

c70d8323b295e6b8dfa18e720a7b6e2a719c42d19a5dedab1157866043417c7d

Detection & response playbook

Credential / info stealer

Find it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for accounts-stores (version 0.0.1).
If you installed it — respond
accounts-stores is built to steal secrets, so assume every credential the build or runtime could read is compromised. Remove it from your project and lockfile, then rotate ALL exposed secrets — npm/registry tokens, cloud keys, CI/CD secrets, SSH keys, and any .env values — from a known-clean machine. Audit logs for unauthorized use of those credentials.
Did it already run?
If accounts-stores was installed, its post-install payload may already have run. Removing the package does not undo that — check outbound connections and credential use from the install window onward.

Frequently asked questions

No. accounts-stores on npm has been identified as a malicious package (version 0.0.1 flagged). It should be removed immediately — do not install or keep it in your dependency tree.

Campaign

IN-MAL-2026-014565

References

npmjs.com

Credits

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Detect & block this

O3 blocks accounts-stores-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.

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