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 denialofservice 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 boobytrapped proxy site and let the students who came to dodge