vui-gatewaynpm

package.json declares a dependency whose key equals this package's own name (vui-gateway) and whose source is an off-registry HTTPS URL, https://repo.securityctrl.com/vui-gateway. On npm install, npm resolves that URL and installs whatever bytes it returns, running any lifecycle scripts contained within. The source is not the npm registry, there is no version pin, and no integrity hash is present, so the content is mutable and unauthenticated — whoever controls repo.securityctrl.com controls code execution on the installer's machine. The shipped index.js is an inert stub; the manifest itself is the entire attack surface. The dependency-key-equals-package-name shape is characteristic of dependency-confusion attacks intended to shadow an internal package of the same name.

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.