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Worm armed 42 GitHub repos by hiding a payload too big to fail

Worm armed 42 GitHub repos by hiding a payload too big to fail
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A new Miasma-family npm worm , originally believed to be just a test with no victims, secretly armed 42 real GitHub repositories from 11 owners, hijacking accounts as early as July and using a stealthy payload built to stay hidden from GitHub and automated scanners, according to JFrog researchers. Threat hunters at SafeDep, an open source supply chain security firm, first spotted the “testmetest” npm campaign last week, identifying 18 packages linked to the same operator between October 19 and O

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