Threat researchTracked by EncryptLayer intelligence
Earliest Known PolinRider Malware Found in 2025 npm Packages
- Published by
- opensourcemalware.com
- Published
- 30 Oct 2026
- Indicators
- none submitted
The report
A hijacked maintainer account shipped the North Korean payload 8 months before the first documented victims.
Read the full analysis: Earliest Known PolinRider Malware Found in 2025 npm Packages (opensourcemalware.com).
Indicators
The report is tracked for context; no indicator from it met the bar for blocking (for example, it only names shared hosting).
How this is tracked
EncryptLayer intelligence, A.R.P. Syndicate’s open threat feed, reviews each indicator against the published report before adding it (#33). This page is generated from that record and the report’s own title and summary; nothing is rewritten.