INTEL_REPORT
The Hacker News · published 7/14/2026, 7:08:36 AM · TLP amber
Summary
Ingested excerpt (first ~500 chars of normalized text).
148 npm Packages Disguised as Student Proxies Turned Browsers Into a DDoS Botnet A campaign of 148 npm packages disguised as student web proxies turned visitors' browsers into a distributed denial-of-service botnet for roughly two weeks in May, according to new research from JFrog. The packages did not go after the developers who might install them. The operators used the registry as free hosting for a booby-trapped proxy site and let the students who came to dodge 148…
https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/148-npm-packages-disguised-as-student.html
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What we pulled out
Deterministic extractor (IOC + allowlisted tokens + ATT&CK IDs present in DB).
Indicators
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Malware families
Allowlist token matches only.
Threat actors mentioned
Allowlist mentions — not a formal attribution verdict.
ATT&CK techniques
MITRE IDs referenced in text and present in local technique table.
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