{"id":8210,"date":"2026-05-23T17:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T17:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/packagist-supply-chain-attack-infects-8-packages-using-github-hosted-linux-malware\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T17:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T17:14:15","slug":"packagist-supply-chain-attack-infects-8-packages-using-github-hosted-linux-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/packagist-supply-chain-attack-infects-8-packages-using-github-hosted-linux-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Packagist Supply Chain Attack Infects 8 Packages Using GitHub-Hosted Linux Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA new &#8220;coordinated&#8221; supply chain attack campaign has impacted eight packages on Packagist including malicious code designed to run a Linux binary retrieved from a GitHub Releases URL.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although the affected packages were all Composer packages, the malicious code was not added to composer.json,&#8221; Socket said. &#8220;Instead, it was inserted into package.json, targeting projects that ship JavaScript\u00a0A new &#8220;coordinated&#8221; supply chain attack campaign has impacted eight packages on Packagist including malicious code designed to run a Linux binary retrieved from a GitHub Releases URL.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although the affected packages were all Composer packages, the malicious code was not added to composer.json,&#8221; Socket said. &#8220;Instead, it was inserted into package.json, targeting projects that ship JavaScript\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA new &#8220;coordinated&#8221; supply chain attack campaign has impacted eight packages on Packagist including malicious code designed to run a Linux binary retrieved from a GitHub Releases URL. &#8220;Although the affected packages were all Composer packages, the malicious code was not added to composer.json,&#8221; Socket said. &#8220;Instead, it was inserted into package.json, targeting projects that&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/packagist-supply-chain-attack-infects-8-packages-using-github-hosted-linux-malware\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Packagist Supply Chain Attack Infects 8 Packages Using GitHub-Hosted Linux Malware<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}