The threat actors behind the supply chain attack targeting the popular Trivy scanner are suspected to be conducting follow-on attacks that have led to the compromise of a large number of npm packages with a previously undocumented self-propagating worm dubbed CanisterWorm.
The name is a reference to the fact that the malware uses an ICP canister, which refers to tamperproof smart contracts on
Trivy Supply Chain Attack Triggers Self-Spreading CanisterWorm Across 47 npm Packages
