A Developer's Guide to Getting Rid of PolinRider

PolinRider is a DPRK-run malware campaign targeting individual software developers via booby-trapped VS Code tasks, typosquatted/npm trojan packages, and infected forks/PRs; it steals credentials (browser, SSH, cloud, registry tokens, etc.), self-propagates across repos and registries using victim credentials, and persists via local propagation scripts and blockchain-based C2. The post details infection vectors, why standard remediation (credential rotation, wipes) often fails, provides indicators (files, artifacts, IPs), and gives a step-by-step, field-tested cleanup and mitigation checklist.