oracle-redisnpm
oracle-redis is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-16390) that executes malicious code on install (malicious version 5.11.3). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in oracle-redis (npm)
What this malware does
The package publishes as oracle-redis but ships a verbatim copy of the ioredis README, source tree, and repository URL (git://github.com/luin/ioredis.git), presenting itself as ioredis under a different name. The package.json declares two additional runtime dependencies that are not part of ioredis's real dependency set and are never imported anywhere in the shipped built/ source: redis-type-intel ^1.10.5 and pino-ulid ^2.12.2. Because they are ordinary dependencies with caret ranges, npm install oracle-redis resolves and installs those two packages (and their transitive graph) into the installer's node_modules, executing whatever lifecycle scripts they declare, even though nothing in the ioredis code being wrapped ever loads them. The combination of a name-squat lure over a popular library plus unused, caret-pinned extra dependencies is a dependency-delivery shape: the harm, if any, arrives through the transitive install of the extra names rather than through this tarball's own code.
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 oracle-redis (version 5.11.3). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging oracle-redis across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
Remove oracle-redis 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 oracle-redis 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 oracle-redis 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 oracle-redis-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.