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Lotusbail npm package found to be harvesting WhatsApp messages and contacts


The lotusbail npm package presents itself as a WhatsApp Web API library - a fork of the legitimate @whiskeysockets/baileys package. With over 56,000 downloads and functional code that actually works as advertised, it's the kind of dependency developers install without a second thought.

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