Besides main issue here, and the owners account being possibly compromised as well, there's like 170+ low quality spam comments in there.
I would expect better spam detection system from GitHub. This is hardly acceptable.
Reporting spam on GitHub requires you to click a link, specify the type of ticket, write a description of the problem, solve multiple CAPTCHAs of spinning animals, and press Submit. It's absurd.
i'm guessing it's accounts they have compromised with the stealer.
Or they're just bots. This repository has 40k+ stars somehow.
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.