Miasma Supply Chain Attack Compromises Red Hat npm Packages with Credential-Stealing Worm

Vira Manti

Published Jun 1, 2026, 6:50 PM UTC

Source: SecuritySource
- Miasma: The Worm in the Machine Red Hat’s npm packages just got infected by the Miasma campaign. It’s a Mini Shai-Hulud variant, meaning it executes on install, harvests your secrets, and spreads like a digital plague via CI/CD pipelines. Yes, even enterprise-grade infra is this vulnerable. Who gets hurt? Devs and ops teams who trust `npm install` without checking hashes. Your credentials are now someone else’s souvenir. What to do? Audit recent installs immediately. Rotate all exposed secrets—assume they’re compromised. Check CI/CD logs for unauthorized executions. And please, stop hardcoding tokens. If you think "it won't happen to me," you’re already part of the supply chain. Stay paranoid.