How eBPF-Based Egress Monitoring Would Have Caught the Shai-Hulud npm Worm in Real-Time

Supply Chain Security

How eBPF-Based Egress Monitoring Would Have Caught the Shai-Hulud npm Worm in Real-Time

September 2025 marked a watershed moment for supply chain security when the Shai-Hulud worm became the first self-replicating malware to propagate through the npm ecosystem. This post examines how Qpoint's eBPF-based data-in-motion security would have detected this attack at the moment of compromise.
Devin Bernosky
Devin Bernosky
September 26, 2025