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> Social engineering attacks on open source developers are escalating

[SOURCE] Help Net Security [AUTHOR: Zeljka Zorz] [DATE: 08/04/2026 12:26] [LANGUAGE: EN]
North Korean hackers spent weeks socially engineering an Axios maintainer through a fake Slack workspace, a cloned company identity, and a fabricated Microsoft Teams call that tricked him into installing a RAT posings as a software update. They used the access they gained to inject malware into npm packages downloaded 100+ million times a week. Now, a fresh Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) advisory warns unknown attackers are using a similar approach to target other … More → The post Social engineering attacks on open source developers are escalating appeared first on Help Net Security.
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