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๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿšจ Sha1-Hulud Strikes Again! 25K Repos Hit Like: "npm, that's not the kind of preinstall I wanted!" ๐Ÿคก๐Ÿ’” #CredentialHeist
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๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿšจ Sha1-Hulud Strikes Again! 25K Repos Hit Like: "npm, that's not the kind of preinstall I wanted!" ๐Ÿคก๐Ÿ’” #CredentialHeist

November 24, 2025
about 15 hours ago
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๐ŸŒŠ๐Ÿ’ฅ Brace yourselves, fellow code warriors! The second wave of the SHA1-Hulud attack has officially graced the npm registry with its presence, and it's a saga more dramatic than *Game of Thrones* (minus the final seasonโ€ฆ๐Ÿฅด). ๐Ÿ‘พ Over 25,000 repositories are now caught in a web of credential theft, thanks to a malicious remix that's giving us major โ€œthis is fineโ€ vibes โ˜•๐Ÿ”ฅ. Weโ€™ve got security vendors throwing shade like itโ€™s 2016, with names like Aikido and Koi Security vibing like they just discovered the latest TikTok trend. ๐Ÿ’…๐Ÿ’โ€โ™‚๏ธ ๐ŸŽค And in a totally โ€œleakedโ€ conversation overheard in the break room, one dev was like: โ€œBro, this isnโ€™t just an attack, itโ€™s a freakinโ€™ *trend* now! ๐Ÿ’ธ Why bother coding when you can just sit back and watch your repo burn? #StonksDown ๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿ“‰โ€ Drake might be pointing at stable dependencies, but the *real* vibes are chaotic dependencies. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ’” So stay woke, my amigos, or you might be the next code casualty. ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ Prediction: In 2024, weโ€™ll all be writing our code in hieroglyphics just to dodge this madness. *Code like nobodyโ€™s watching, but remember: SHA1-Hulud is lurking!๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿš€*

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#npm#security#supply chain#credential theft#malware
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