ambient-mapnpm
Advisory published Updated
ambient-map is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2025-192324) that executes malicious code on install (malicious version 99.99.99). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in ambient-map (npm)
What this malware does
The package ambient-map was found to contain malicious code.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Malicious packageFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for ambient-map (version 99.99.99).
If you installed it — respond
Remove ambient-map from your project and lockfile, then assume any secrets accessible to the build or runtime were exposed: rotate API keys, tokens, and credentials, and audit for unexpected outbound activity or persistence.
Did it already run?
If ambient-map 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.
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Credits
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Detect & block this
O3 blocks ambient-map-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the malicious outbound activity and severs the channel.