ihubinternalnpm
Malicious code in ihubinternal (npm) Remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
What this malware does
The package exports a VelocityAuth() function that, when called by integrating applications, sends end-user Solana wallet public keys, signed nonces/signatures, precise GPS coordinates (latitude/longitude), and any JWT stored under localStorage key vjwt to the hardcoded URL https://itsxpulse-401.hf.space/x401_auth (dist/index.js line 2). The destination is an anonymous HuggingFace Space with Velocity/VELOCITY401/x401 branding that does not correspond to the npm publisher (immutablehub/ihubinternal). The README contains only the text ### INTERNAL AUTH PKG and does not document the remote endpoint, the data fields transmitted, or the integration model. Any application that wires this SDK into an authentication flow ends up forwarding its end-users' wallet credentials and location data to a third-party host the integrator cannot inspect or audit. This is the silent-relay shape: a package whose advertised API hard-codes a destination such that normal use leaks caller-supplied (and end-user) data to that destination.
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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 ihubinternal (version 1.0.0). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging ihubinternal across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
ihubinternal 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 ihubinternal 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 ihubinternal 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 ihubinternal-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.