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hello244a

hello244a has 46 versions on the npm registry flagged in 1 incident we track. Other versions of this package are not implicated - only the exact versions listed below were named by the source advisories.

Affected versions

Check what you actually have installed with npm ls hello244a.

  • hello244a@1.0.45
  • hello244a@1.0.44
  • hello244a@1.0.43
  • hello244a@1.0.42
  • hello244a@1.0.41
  • hello244a@1.0.40
  • hello244a@1.0.39
  • hello244a@1.0.38
  • hello244a@1.0.37
  • hello244a@1.0.36
  • hello244a@1.0.35
  • hello244a@1.0.34
  • hello244a@1.0.33
  • hello244a@1.0.32
  • hello244a@1.0.31
  • hello244a@1.0.30
  • hello244a@1.0.29
  • hello244a@1.0.28
  • hello244a@1.0.27
  • hello244a@1.0.26
  • hello244a@1.0.25
  • hello244a@1.0.24
  • hello244a@1.0.23
  • hello244a@1.0.22
  • hello244a@1.0.21
  • hello244a@1.0.20
  • hello244a@1.0.19
  • hello244a@1.0.18
  • hello244a@1.0.17
  • hello244a@1.0.16
  • hello244a@1.0.15
  • hello244a@1.0.14
  • hello244a@1.0.13
  • hello244a@1.0.12
  • hello244a@1.0.11
  • hello244a@1.0.10
  • hello244a@1.0.9
  • hello244a@1.0.8
  • hello244a@1.0.7
  • hello244a@1.0.6
  • hello244a@1.0.5
  • hello244a@1.0.4
  • hello244a@1.0.3
  • hello244a@1.0.2
  • hello244a@1.0.1
  • hello244a@1.0.0

The incident that flagged it

High

GitHub Advisory malware sweep - ~65 npm packages (AI-SDK typosquat cluster, Solana base58/wallet drainers, SQLite scoped fakes, Nuxt/Chai continuation) taken down 2026-07-07 / 2026-07-08

On 2026-07-07 GitHub's Advisory Database retired ~65 CWE-506 Embedded Malicious Code npm advisories (plus a small 2-package 2026-07-08 tail), the second-largest single-day 2026 GHSA npm-malware sweep after 2026-07-06. Distinct clusters: an AI-SDK typosquat family (openai-agents-helpers, ollama-helpers, anthropic-toolkit, @langgraphjs/toolkit, ai-sdk-helpers, mcp-server-pg), Solana base58 wallet-drainer names, @sqlite-list/* / @sqlite-access/* throwaway scopes, Nuxt/Chai continuations, plus the whs4_* sextet.

Versions named here: 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.0.7, 1.0.8, 1.0.9, 1.0.10, 1.0.11, 1.0.12, 1.0.13, 1.0.14, 1.0.15, 1.0.16, 1.0.17, 1.0.18, 1.0.19, 1.0.20, 1.0.21, 1.0.22, 1.0.23, 1.0.24, 1.0.25, 1.0.26, 1.0.27, 1.0.28, 1.0.29, 1.0.30, 1.0.31, 1.0.32, 1.0.33, 1.0.34, 1.0.35, 1.0.36, 1.0.37, 1.0.38, 1.0.39, 1.0.40, 1.0.41, 1.0.42, 1.0.43, 1.0.44, 1.0.45

What to do if you installed one of these

Treat the machine as compromised rather than simply upgrading. Packages in these incidents typically execute at install time, so the payload has already run with whatever credentials were in the environment.

  1. 1.Rotate every credential that machine or CI job could reach - registry tokens, cloud keys, SSH keys, CI secrets - from a different machine.
  2. 2.Pin to a version not listed above, then reinstall from a clean lockfile.
  3. 3.Clear caches and private mirrors. Artifactory, Nexus, Verdaccio, and devpi routinely keep serving a tarball after the public registry has pulled it.
  4. 4.Read the incident write-up above - recommended actions differ per incident, and some have specific indicators of compromise worth grepping your logs for.

Check your whole project

hello244a is one of many packages in these incidents, and it is usually pulled in as a transitive dependency rather than one you installed directly. Paste your package-lock.json to check every dependency at once - it runs in your browser and nothing is uploaded.

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Other packages in the same incident

If hello244a is in your tree, these are worth checking too - they were published by the same campaign.

See the full incident

Version data comes from the public advisories cited on each incident page. We list only versions those advisories name - we don't infer additional ones. Think this is wrong or incomplete? Tell us.