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Researchers: ChainDrop, a Shai-Hulud-based worm, has compromised 1,300+ npm packages, like Keyv, Cacheable, and flat-cache, with a combined 2B monthly downloads (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Techmeme 5 hours ago 68 min read ↗ Original

Reported by Techmeme, filed under Dev tools.

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Only one feed elseif tracks has carried this so far, so there is no independent corroboration yet. Read it as a single-source report.

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Carried by one feed so far, so it has no independent corroboration yet.

Classified as Dev tools from the language of the headline and summary.

Ranked mainly on recency, which contributed 320 of its signal score.

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Techmeme Researchers: ChainDrop, a Shai-Hulud-based worm, has compromised 1,300+ npm packages, like Keyv, Cacheable, and flat-cache, with a combined 2B monthly downloads (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer) 5 hours Open ↗