cloudpivotnpm
Malicious code in cloudpivot (npm) Remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
What this malware does
On npm install, the package.json preinstall hook runs wget against http://194.120.24.50:7374 with query parameters carrying $(whoami), $(pwd), $(hostname), and a base64-encoded copy of /etc/passwd. The package ships no functional code — main: index.js is declared but no index.js is present — so the only effect of installing the package is the exfiltration probe firing automatically. The destination is a bare IP over plain HTTP, with no relation to any declared publisher, and the package description itself references Burp Collaborator abuse. Any developer or CI system that runs npm install cloudpivot leaks host identifiers and the local user database to the operator of 194.120.24.50.
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Detection & response playbook
Credential / info stealerFind it
Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for cloudpivot (2 malicious versions). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging cloudpivot across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
cloudpivot 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 cloudpivot 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 cloudpivot 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 cloudpivot-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.