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Shiraz Jagati

Mini Shai-Hulud GitHub Actions worm taints 300+ npm packages with 16M weekly downloads

A self-replicating "Mini Shai-Hulud" worm abused GitHub Actions on May 19 to push malicious releases, impacting AntV-related packages, echarts-for-react, and Microsoft's durabletask SDK across an estimated 16 million weekly downloads. The malware is designed to steal cloud and developer credentials and includes a dead-man's switch that can wipe a developer's home directory if the attacker-created npm token is revoked. GitHub said on May 20 it would roll out staged publishing, expand OIDC trusted publishing, and move away from legacy tokens.