etoro-apinpm
etoro-api is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-16113) that executes malicious code on install (malicious version 999.0.0). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in etoro-api (npm)
What this malware does
The preinstall lifecycle script in [email protected] (preinstall.js) auto-executes on npm install and performs an HTTP GET to a hardcoded bare-IP endpoint at http://209.126.81.147/etoro-depconf-poce346552f776f/npm/<host>/<user>/<cwd>, embedding the installer's hostname (os.hostname()), OS username (os.userInfo().username), and current working directory (process.cwd()) as URL path components. The destination is a plain-HTTP bare-IP host unrelated to any legitimate eToro publishing infrastructure. The package name combined with the implausibly high version number (999.0.0) is the canonical dependency-confusion shape used to force resolution over an internal private package of the same name.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Malicious packageFind it
Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for etoro-api (version 999.0.0). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging etoro-api across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
Remove etoro-api 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 etoro-api 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 etoro-api 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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Credits
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Detect & block this
O3 blocks etoro-api-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.