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To prevent misuse by malicious actors, the domain hacktrail.net has been reserved by security researcher Ax Sharma.

Previous use of this domain included collecting user data from NodeJS malware (“npmpubman“) recently removed by npm.

More information: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/npm-nukes-nodejs-malware-opening-windows-linux-reverse-shells/

npmpubman uploads environment variables malicious npm package
Image: npmpubman collecting information via the hacktrail.net domain

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