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If it produces no output, does that mean that there's no code that could act in the future? I first acted out of nerves and deleted the whole node-modules and package.lock in a couple of freshly opened Astro projects, curious if I should considered my web surfing to still be potentially malicious


The malware introduced here is a crypto address swapper. It's possible that even after deleting node_modules that some malicious code could persist in a browser cache.

If you have crypto wallets on the potentially compromised machine, or intend to transfer crypto via some web client, proceed with caution.




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