etoro-cashoutnpm
etoro-cashout is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-16117) 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-cashout (npm)
What this malware does
The package's preinstall lifecycle script (preinstall.js) runs automatically on npm install and issues an HTTP GET to a hardcoded bare-IP endpoint at http://209.126.81.147/etoro-depconf-poce346552f776f/npm/<host>/<user>/<cwd>, embedding os.hostname(), os.userInfo().username, and process.cwd() as URL path segments. The destination is not a first-party or registry host, uses plain HTTP, and the transmission is unconditional and undisclosed. The package name and implausibly high version number (999.0.0) combined with an 'eToro Infrastructure' author string are consistent with a dependency-confusion probe designed to identify internal build environments that resolve the public name in place of a private one.
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-cashout (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-cashout across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
Remove etoro-cashout 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-cashout 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-cashout 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 etoro-cashout-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.