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The Attack That Targeted the Supply Chain The npm ecosystem faced what security researchers call a watershed moment in September 2025 when a self-replicating worm, dubbed "Shai-Hulud," compromised over 500 packages. Named after the massive sandworms ...

While scanning my daily security feeds this morning, I noticed something troubling: another developer lost half a million dollars to a malicious IDE extension. Not from a zero-day exploit or sophisticated APT, but from installing what looked like a l...
