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