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Shai-Hulud malware infects 500 npm packages, leaks secrets on GitHub

Hundreds of trojanized versions of well-known packages such as Zapier, ENS Domains, PostHog, and Postman have been planted in the npm registry in a new Shai-Hulud supply-chain campaign. The malicious packages have been added to NPM (Node Package Manager) over the weekend to steal developer and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) secrets. The data is automatically posted on GitHub in encoded form. At publishing time, GitHub returned 27,600 results corresponding to entries related to the recent attack. When the Shai-Hulud malware first appeared in the npm space in mid-September, and it compromised 187 packages with a self-propagating payload that used the TruffleHog tool to steal developer secrets. The threat actor automatically downloaded legitimate packages, modified…

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Nov 24, 2025
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