Shai Hulud launches second supply-chain attack

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/shai-hulud-strikes-again-hitting-zapier-ensdomains

by birdculture • 8 months ago

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benzible• 8 months ago

Dup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46032539 [edit: not a dup!]

swsieber• 8 months ago

This article has quite a bit more information though.

dang2• 8 months ago

Thanks—I've added this link to the toptext at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46032539.

thih9• 8 months ago

Not a dup, this is a different article about the same event, with different information too.

a4isms• 8 months ago

Please use the word "Dup" for a resubmission of the same link and "See also" for a different submission.

neogodless• 8 months ago

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46032539 Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected (helixguard.ai)

~6 hours ago | 430 comments

dang2• 8 months ago

Ok, we've merged the (relevant) comments thither. Thanks!

Edit: Here's a bit of explanation for those curious. Even though the links are different, the test we use for whether to merge threads is whether they are substantially the same story vs. whether the two links will lead to substantially different discussion. In this case it's clear that it's the same discussion, so I merged them.

Since the second link has additional information, I've added it to the toptext of the original post. That way people can look at both.

QuantumNomad_• 8 months ago

Typo in title. Current title of HN post says:

SHA1-Hulud the Second Comming – Postman, Zapier, PostHog All Compromised via NPM

Should be Shai-Hulud, not SHA1-Hulud.

adzm• 8 months ago

That said, the secrets are uploaded to a repo named `Sha1-Hulud: The Second Coming`

zahlman2• 8 months ago

Ah, I missed that detail.

zahlman2• 8 months ago

I don't know why you were downvoted. The actual page does not say SHA1, the attack as far as I know is not related to the SHA1 algorithm, and the name of the worm isn't intended as that sort of pun.

pezezin• 8 months ago

The worm itself is posting the secrets in Github with the name Sha1-hulud: https://github.com/search?q=sha1-hulud&type=repositories

cyberpunk• 8 months ago

Yikes. AWS secrets galore in the couple I decoded (double base64)...

I'm surprised github is leaving these up.

AlexandrB• 8 months ago

Also "coming" only has one "m". Or is this some kind of pun?

ChrisArchitect• 8 months ago

[dupe] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46032539

welder• 8 months ago

Python script to check if any of your repos have the listed compromised packages in pnpm or npm lock files:

https://chatgpt.com/s/t_6924b232a8f88191a146a510c6631143

artisin• 8 months ago

Worth mentioning that Bubblewrap[1] (bwrap) can remove most npm/node attack vectors or, at the very least, limit the damage from running arbitrary code during install/execution. Far from a silver bullet, and you'll want to combine it with a simple wrapper script to avoid dinking around with all its arguments, but it beats dealing with rootless Podman containers.

[1] https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap

port112• 8 months ago

This looks really interesting, but it sounds like it's as complicated to setup as rootless Podman — which is to say not _that_ complicated. Anyone using this with Node or Deno successfully?

bunnybender• 8 months ago

From my bookmarks (2023): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36686461

splix• 8 months ago

We made a script to avoid such situations. It checks the dependencies, just by parsing the package.json (or the lock file), checking the relevant time on npm registry, and returns error if it finds a too fresh package added.

We run it on CI for each commit/PR, and if a developer tries to commit a change that updates a JS dependency to a too recent it prevents the build from running, and so on. Basically we expect that a Supply Chain attacks on NPM would be noticed in a couple of week, and we enforce this time window to our code.

See https://github.com/emeraldpay/paranoid.js

Shai Hulud launches second supply-chain attack

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