The coordinated campaign has so far published as many as 46,484 packages, according to SourceCodeRED security researcher Paul McCarty, who first flagged the activity. The end goal is quite unusual - It's designed to inundate the npm registry with random packages rather than focusing on data theft or other malicious behaviors. The worm-life propagation mechanism and the use of a distinctive naming scheme that relies on Indonesian names and food terms for the newly created packages have lent it the moniker IndonesianFoods.