[Dev]olution
Shai-Hulud: The NPM Worm That Spreads Like Virus
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Welcome to the first minisode of Devolution where we dive into the devastating Shai-Hulud attack that shook the NPM ecosystem last year.
Nicky Pike breaks down how a self-replicating worm took control of over 25,000 GitHub repositories, exploiting a simple NPM command that every developer runs without thinking. From the rapid spread to its impact on household developer tools, this attack wasn’t…