Shai-Hulud
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Shai‑Hulud campaign trojanises hundreds of npm packages and leaks CI/CD secrets to GitHub
A renewed Shai‑Hulud campaign has published thousands of trojanised npm packages that steal developer and CI/CD secrets and post them to GitHub; researchers at Aikido and Wiz say the operation modified legitimate packages, used compromised maintainer accounts and is leaking secrets in automatically created GitHub repositories.
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GitHub outlines changes to harden npm after self-replicating worm incident
GitHub said a self-replicating “Shai-Hulud” worm compromised maintainer accounts and injected malicious post-install scripts into npm packages, and outlined changes including required 2FA, short-lived granular tokens and trusted publishing to harden npm’s supply chain.
