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FOSS project attacks on Github, malware injected in forks ransomware Linux machines (mhouge.dk)

submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) by ikidd to c/[email protected]

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Apparently there's a bunch of projects getting hit with this, fairly obscure ones though. Project gets forked, suddenly get a pile of stars more than the original, and then there's a curl-bash pipe inserted into it that runs some ransomeware that encrypts ~/Documents.

About a dozen other projects linked in here from another developer (excuse the Reddit link): https://old.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/1jbzuot/someone_copied_our_github_project_made_it_look/

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[–] just_another_person 49 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

This isn't really a supply chain attack. It's more social engineering: fake users, forks, and non-verified code. They're taking advantage of the fact that most people don't use verified releases or packages code from open source projects.

GitHub is not compromised, nor sending unintended payloads.

[–] ikidd 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Many of the projects are backend dev tools, like the Atlas provider linked in the thread.

[–] just_another_person 28 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

But that's not a supply chain attack. If projects or platforms are compromised and THEN their code is used by normal means of ingestion of said project, that would be a supply chain attack.

These are unofficial channels created as forks of existing projects in an attempt to fool users into using these instead.

[–] ikidd 9 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

OK, fair enough, I changed the title.

[–] just_another_person 3 points 15 hours ago

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