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yolov8 — deep security report

ShadowCanopy's full breakdown of yolov8 on npm: verdict, AI analysis, dependency chain, network behavior, prebuilds, and obfuscated code.

Dangerous — known malicious
This package matches a known-malicious advisory and is blocked by ShadowCanopy by default.
Scanned 8/7/2026
Known maliciousyolov8@0.0.1-securityView on registry ↗latest: 0.0.1-security

This package matches a known-malicious advisory and is blocked by ShadowCanopy by default across every project. 3 flagged versions.

Placeholder/security holding package with no executable code or malicious behavior present.

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AI breakdown

Plain-English summary of what this package does and how it behaves.

This is an npm security holding package named 'yolov8' (version 0.0.1-security) whose sole purpose is to reserve the package name.

Capabilities

  • No scripts or executable code observed

Data access

  • None observed

Network

  • No network access observed

Security holding packages contain no functional code and are used only to block name squatting; they introduce negligible risk but provide no utility.

Package metadata

LicenseUnknown

security holding package

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Files in package (4)

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