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CrowdStrike Infested With “Self-Replicating Worms”
['Joe Wilkins', 'Contributing Writer', 'Frank Landymore', 'Victor Tangermann', 'Sharon Adarlo', 'Maggie Harrison Dupré', 'Noor Al-Sibai']
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A year after a glitch at cybersecurity company CrowdStrike triggered a global computer outage affecting millions of computers, the software vendor is being forced to contain a new threat: a swarm of self-replicating worms.
NPM and CrowdStrike quickly removed the infected packages, which has slowed the worm’s spread.
“After detecting several malicious NPM packages in the public NPM registry, a third-party open source repository, we swiftly removed them and proactively rotated our keys in public registries,” a CrowdStrike representative told The Hacker News.
“Because it can lay dormant for a while, and if just one person is suddenly infected by accident, they could restart the spread.
Especially if there’s a super-spreader attack.”More on cybersecurity: Man’s Entire Life Destroyed After Downloading AI Software
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