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July 06, 2026 at 13:11 UTC
North Korean Hackers Target Open Source Developers in Supply Chain Attacks
By Ionut Arghire
AI Summary
North Korean threat actors behind the 'PolinRider' campaign have compromised over 100 legitimate open source packages and repositories to deliver a backdoor and information stealer targeting software developers. The supply chain attack vector — poisoning trusted open source dependencies — puts any developer consuming affected packages at risk of silent compromise.
Relevance score: 83.0/100
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