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Supply Chain Attack Hits 32 Red Hat NPM Packages
Hackers published 96 malicious package versions, injected with a credential-stealing worm similar to Mini Shai-Hulud.
Summary
Hackers published 96 malicious package versions, injected with a credential-stealing worm similar to Mini Shai-Hulud. On Monday, hackers hit Red Hat’s NPM repository in a new supply chain attack, publishing malicious versions of 32 packages to distribute a credential-stealing worm. Within a 72-second window, the threat actor published poisoned iterations across all 32 packages, likely using automation, ReversingLabs notes. The affected packages cover the entire Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console JavaScript ecosystem and have nearly 10 million collective downloads.
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