Futurism
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.
As first reported by investigative cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs, CrowdStrike once again became the launchpad for a potentially debilitating security hazard when some 25 code packages were compromised by a novel strand of malware.
Dubbed "Shai-Hulud," the malicious software is designed to slip into developer machines through the JavaScript repository "Node Package Manager" (NPM), a widely used database of software modules and coding tools. According to Krebs, once the malware nabs credentials from an infested computer, it publishes its finds to a public file on
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