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GuB-42 ◴[] No.45261656[source]
> Shai Hulud

Clever name... but I would have expected malware authors to be a bit less obvious. They literally named their giant worm after a giant worm.

> At the core of this attack is a ~3.6MB minified bundle.js file

Yep, even malware can be bloated. That's in the spirit of NPM I guess...

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whynotmaybe ◴[] No.45262396[source]
Malwares have to follow Moore's law, tequila virus was ~2.6kb in 1991.
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1. arccy ◴[] No.45273741[source]
not quite moore's law, growth at only 1.226x per year