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Red Hat npm Packages Compromised to Spread a Credential-Stealing Worm

By BeauHDJune 1, 2026 · 1 min read

Aikido Security says more than 30 official @redhat-cloud-services npm packages were compromised with a credential-stealing worm called "Miasma," a variant resembling the open-sourced Mini Shai-Hulud supply-chain malware. "The packages were published via GitHu…

Each compromised package declares a preinstall script in its package.json that executes node index.js automatically on every npm install, before any application code runs and before the developer has…

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