An ongoing npm credential harvesting campaign operating since August 2025 has been discovered by researchers at Koi Security. The malware, dubbed PhantomRaven by the researchers, is actively stealing npm tokens, GitHub credentials and CI/CD secrets from developers worldwide, with 126 npm packages infected, totalling 86,434 downloads. At least 80 of them were still active when the Koi Security report was published on October 29. While the attacker’s infrastructure was described in the report as “surprisingly sloppy” because a simple analysis led the researchers to a single individual, they commented that the delivery mechanism is “clever.” Remote Dynamic Dependencies Technique Explained The attacker uses Remote Dynamic Dependencies (RDD) to hide malicious code in externally hosted packages…