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My macOS install got infected by installing NPM package? A false positive or a real threat
Jan. 7, 2022, 4:06 a.m. | /u/Geg_tor
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So I was amidst writing my NodeJS app in VSCode that I'm working on for some time and I installed a library that I used for several years GameDig https://www.npmjs.com/package/gamedig
After like 10 minutes my computer started lagging and all apps quit as I started investigating I saw a process called MRT using 90% of my CPU at that moment I knew I was fucked because MRT is an Apple Malware Removal tool
So I used Objective See Task Explorer …
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