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Malicious MAL-2025-191402

posthog-js

npm package · versions 1.297.3

Reported Nov 25, 2025 · Updated Dec 1, 2025

If this package is installed

Remove it, treat the machine (or CI runner) as compromised, and rotate every secret, token and key it could access — from a different, clean machine.

Details

Source: amazon-inspector (2b422f278bf27e062b349e97360b6919e773122f21656f23d6da583ce7cb1a92)
The package posthog-js was found to contain malicious code.

Source: google-open-source-security (1199070f9140b97dfe8c2ecdfe5a68de5c3df986e7d82041c96f07ebc557f365)
This package was compromised by the Sha1-Hulud: The Second Coming NPM worm.
The malicious payload steals tokens and credentials and publishes them to
GitHub. The worm will propogate itself to NPM packages the user owns and
establish persistence is a GitHub action.
The package may also destroy the user's home directory.