Why?
They’re paid bad actors by oligarchs to force us to then turn to paid, proprietary software subscriptions endlessly while they build their dream surveillance world
Yeah, that scans…
Lol, the “big news” is an infected VScode extension with 4k users stealing 3k github credentials…
Yeah, clickbait headline is sus AF.
The one Microsoft itself fell victim to recently, with their faltering github platform?
And it was live on the CS code plugin store for under an hour. It’s impressive to ensnare the operators of the platforms (plural) in such a small window.
It’s because so much of corporate security is based on whether a user trusts a piece of code in an environment where they’ve gotten used to trusting new pieces of code. At my job, so many things ask for the one password that protects my full account that I wouldn’t be surprised if someone sneaks in something that both legitimately uses it to log in to something but also saves the user/pass combo and it would likely succeed completely at getting a bunch of credentials.
Watching this from the sidelines is a lot lamer than the movies make it seem.
xz utils backdoor would have been carnage though. it almost succeeded too.
For what it’s worth, we are living close to the movie Hackers, complete with turning tankers upside down and a new RCE/LPE a day lately.
RCE is remote code execution; what is LPE?
Local Privilege Escalation - i.e. someone who is already a non-admin user (whether through other hacks or normally) on your computer getting admin privileges.
FFS, I should have known that. I literally did that as an exam in one of my IT Security classes.
I suppose it’s just the culture that’s just kind of flat, I thought it would be more universal but everyone is in their own bubbles so it’s fractured all over the place, which is neat for the niches but there’s no glue.
I wonder who made the list of “don’t touch these repos, they’re propping up our proprietary software sans attribution” for the LLM injectabots to avoid.
I realize that the end game here is SUPPOSED to be “erode all trust in free software” but the ineptitude of those profiting off of proprietary software is such that they WILL fuck this up in such a way that it hurts themselves too, it’s just a matter of when.
Almost certainly a foreign government, or at least state sponsored.
When you go to war with the entire world, you make enemies you don’t even know about.
The way I’m reading the article, this is mostly a Github thing:
The malware allows TeamPCP’s hackers to steal credentials (on github) that let them publish malicious versions of those software development tools, too (on github). The cycle repeats, and TeamPCP’s collection of breached networks grows.
They like to toot …
Uh, oh!
