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SSH keys stolen by stream of malicious PyPI and npm packages (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 11 months ago by mac@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] foobaz@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa 🤔

Feature request: steal ed25519 keys too

[–] mrwiggles@prime8s.xyz 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And this is why you password protect your ssh keys

[–] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

It's honestly crazy that tools like npm don't force you to encrypt the tokens for the npm repos. They don't even support it. Any stupid read_file() with http.post() can screw 1000 people.

[–] dudinax@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

What's a stream of packages?