The credential-hijacking Shai-Hulud worm has struck again, this time burrowing its way into a popular AI agent platform SDK.
Multiple security researchers reported Thursday that they had detected Shai-Hulud infection in a recent release of the npm package for version 0.5.144 of Tensorlake’s SDK. That package has somewhere in the neighborhood of 12,000 downloads per week, while its GitHub repository has more than a thousand stars, suggesting it’s quite popular and that the infection could pose a serious risk to anyone who installed the malicious version.
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Source: The Register News
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