Shai Hulud variant poisons 444 packages, spreads via tarballs and dev tool hooks A new variant of the Shai Hulud npm worm has poisoned hundreds of packages while adding propagation techniques that can leave little trace in the corresponding source repositories. In Frank Herberts Dune, Shai Hulud was the name of the giant self sustaining desert sandworms that moved silently beneath the surface of the planet Arrakis.So it made sense that when some new self replicating malware with computer worm...
