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Claimed Bug Bounty Hunter Likely Used LLM to Build PhantomRaven npm Stealer

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Claimed Bug Bounty Hunter Likely Used LLM to Build PhantomRaven npm Stealer

A financially motivated threat actor distributed PhantomRaven, a JavaScript information stealer, through the npm package registry. Security analysis indicates high confidence the malware was written using a large language model, based on verbose comments, placeholder code, and statistical token patterns.

Why it matters: Developers using npm must audit their dependencies immediately for PhantomRaven, as this stealer can harvest sensitive data from applications and build environments.

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