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ChainDrop credential stealing worm infects over 400 npm packages

A self-propagating worm-like attack is hitting the npm registry, having infected 444 packages from more than a dozen publishers so far.

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A self-propagating worm-like attack is hitting the npm registry, having infected 444 packages from more than a dozen publishers so far. The impact is massive, with the packages affected amounting to more than 2 billion monthly downloads combined. The attack began with the compromise of a GitHub account belonging to Jared Wray, who maintains Keyv, a package…

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