Self-propagating malware named 'ChainDrop' has compromised more than 1,300 packages with a combined 2 billion monthly downloads on the Node Package Manager (npm) registry. Infected packages include very popular ones such as Keyv and Cacheable, flat-cache and file-entry-cache, all caching utilities from the same maintainer. The supply-chain attack started after the threat actor compromised the GitHub account of Keyv’s maintainer, and quickly spread to packages associated with major organizations ...