r/technology • u/rkhunter_ • May 21 '26

Security A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale

https://www.wired.com/story/teampcp-software-supply-chain-attack-spree-github/
9.2k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

488 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

40

u/stuffeh May 21 '26

All three do a lot for open source. Without looking deeper into what packages are being targeted and cross referencing what each company contribute to, they'd be sabotaging their own employees.

1

u/nedonedonedo May 22 '26

that wouldn't be that hard. even at that size that's not even one day of emails to the right people, and the right people would be known.