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North Korea's hijack of one of the web's most used open source projects was likely weeks in the making

  • Zack Whittaker--TechCrunch
  • published date: 2026-04-06 16:44:28 UTC

North Korean hackers pushed out malicious updates to a popular open source project by hacking a top developer's computer in a long-running campaign.

A North Korean cyberattack that last Monday briefly hijacked one of the most widely used open source projects on the web took weeks to carry out as part of a long-running campaign to target the code’… [+2951 chars]