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The Shai-Hulud npm worm didn't fake its security check — it earned a legitimate one

An attacker on Tuesday took over the GitHub account of the developer who maintains keyv , a small key-value storage library that npm serv…

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An attacker on Tuesday took over the GitHub account of the developer who maintains keyv , a small key-value storage library that npm serves roughly 127 million times a week. Within hours, poisoned versions of keyv and its sibling caching packages were live on npm, carrying a credential-stealing worm. By midday, security firm Aikido counted at least 868 comp…

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