131 Poisoned AI Packages Hit Microsoft’s (MSFT) npm. CrowdStrike (CRWD) Couldn’t Ask for a Better Sales Pitch
Reported by Yahoo Finance · finance.yahoo.com · August 4, 2026
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD) said on August 3 that a North Korea-linked adversary injected a malicious dependency into at least 131 Mastra AI framework packages on npm (Node Package Manager). Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) owns GitHub, which acquired npm in 2020 and operates the registry at the center of the attack chain. This was a developer-supply-chain […]
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What to watch: Microsoft Corp. (MSFT, CRWD) is involved in M&A activity — deal terms and financing structure matter more than the headline here.
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