Deceptive Tactics Aimed at Ethereum Developers by Cyber Threat Actors Using Counterfeit Hardhat npm Packages

A number of malicious packages have been uncovered on the npm registry by cybersecurity experts.

A number of malicious packages have been uncovered on the npm registry by cybersecurity experts. These packages masquerade as the Hardhat tool developed by the Nomic Foundation, with the intention of extracting valuable information from developers’ systems.
“Through the manipulation of trust in open source add-ons, malicious actors have breached these platforms via rogue npm packages, extracting vital information like private encryption keys, passphrases,

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