Hijacked npm Packages Deliver Malware via Solana, Linked to Glassworm

Sonatype Security Research has identified two hijacked npm packages in the React Native ecosystem that receive more than 30,000 downloads collectively per week and were modified to deliver multi-stage malware. Sonatype is tracking the malicious packages as sonatype-2026-001153.

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