Comment by snailmailman
2 days ago
The same thing occurred on the trivy repo a few days ago. A GitHub discussion about the hack was closed and 700+ spam comments were posted.
I scrolled through and clicked a few profiles. While many might be spam accounts or low-activity accounts, some appeared to be actual GitHub users with a history of contributions.
I’m curious how so many accounts got compromised. Are those past hacks, or is this credential steeling hack very widespread?
Are the trivy and litellm hacks just 2 high profile repos out of a much more widespread “infect as many devs as possible, someone might control a valuable GitHub repository” hack? I’m concerned that this is only the start of many supply chain issues.
Edit: Looking through and several of the accounts have a recent commit "Update workflow configuration" where they are placing a credential stealer into a CI workflow. The commits are all back in february.
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
Update: It looks like the accounts have all been deleted by github, including their repos. They are 404 pages now. Their repos + recent malicious commits are all just 404 pages now.
I'm curious what the policy is there if the accounts were compromised. Can the original users "restore" their accounts somehow? For now it appears the accounts are gone. Maybe they were entirely bot accounts but a few looked like compromised "real" accounts to me.
Yep my coworker hnykda, first reply confirming the report, got his account deleted for a while earlier. Definitely not the best way of handling this...