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GitHub Breached — Employee Device Hack Led to Exfiltration of 3,800+ Internal Repos

ID: d4057942-7173-5e40-a59e-c298e1043713

STIX ID: report--d4057942-7173-5e40-a59e-c298e1043713

Feed Name: The Hacker News

Threat Score
85/100

Date Published: 2026-05-20

Date Updated: 2026-05-20

Author: [email protected] (The Hacker News)

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TeamPCP compromised a GitHub employee device via a malicious VS Code extension, exfiltrating roughly 3,800 internal repositories now being offered for sale, and simultaneously pushed malicious versions of the durabletask PyPI package that drop a Linux-focused infostealer. The malware harvests cloud and developer credentials, propagates across AWS and Kubernetes using stolen tokens and SSM/kubectl, uses a FIRESCALE mechanism to recover backup C2 domains from GitHub commit messages, and poses broad supply-chain and credential-theft risks to developer environments and cloud infrastructure.

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