{
  "id": 132657,
  "title": "Keyv-Linked npm Worm Poisons Hundreds of Packages, Plants Claude Code and VS Code Hooks",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/04/keyv-linked-npm-worm-poisons-hundreds-of-packages-plants-claude-code",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-04T13:30:23.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/keyv-linked-npm-worm-poisons-hundreds.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A credential-stealing npm worm that first appeared in keyv@6.0.0 spread beyond the Keyv and Cacheable namespaces into hundreds of packages across multiple organizations on August 4, 2026. SafeDep verified 353 poisoned versions across 79 package names in the npm registry. Its monitoring put the wider footprint at 442 versions across 353 names, while Aikido later reported at least 868 packages",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}