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Shai-Hulud Descends to Hades: Miasma Worm Campaign Spreads with New PyPI Wave
Socket found 37 malicious PyPI wheels that abuse Python startup hooks to launch a Bun-powered credential stealer tied to Mini Shai-Hulud/Miasma.
@parcel/packager-css
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cssnano is a modern, modular CSS minifier that works with PostCSS. It is highly configurable and can be used to optimize CSS files by removing unnecessary whitespace, comments, and other redundant code. Compared to @parcel/packager-css, cssnano is more focused on minification and optimization rather than bundling.
PostCSS is a tool for transforming CSS with JavaScript plugins. These plugins can lint your CSS, support variables and mixins, transpile future CSS syntax, inline images, and more. PostCSS is more versatile and can be used for a wide range of CSS processing tasks, whereas @parcel/packager-css is specifically designed for bundling and optimizing CSS within the Parcel ecosystem.
Webpack is a module bundler that can handle various types of assets, including CSS. With the help of loaders like 'css-loader' and 'style-loader', Webpack can bundle and optimize CSS files. Webpack is more complex and offers more configuration options compared to @parcel/packager-css, which is designed to be simpler and more integrated with the Parcel bundler.
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The npm package @parcel/packager-css receives a total of 488,299 weekly downloads. As such, @parcel/packager-css popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @parcel/packager-css demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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Research
Socket found 37 malicious PyPI wheels that abuse Python startup hooks to launch a Bun-powered credential stealer tied to Mini Shai-Hulud/Miasma.

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