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Your npm install was safe. What happens when the package runs?

For years, one of the first questions we asked about a suspicious npm package was whether it ran a pre-install or postinstall script. Those hooks can execute before a developer has written a line of code that uses the dependency. Blocking them is a sensible defense. It prevents a particular kind of…

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  1. 2026-10-26 09:00 · InfoWorld AI
    Your npm install was safe. What happens when the package runs?

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