Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem

Re:Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub or... by c0balt on Sunday December 14, 2025 @08:56PM (#46269484)

> Also the OP seemingly implies credentials are stored on-filesystem in plaintext but I might be extrapolating too much there.

To be fair, some tools only support a netrc file for http(s) based auth. Regardless, if you want to use git via http this vector exists almost always.

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Re:Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub or... by woodruffw on Sunday December 14, 2025 @09:20PM (#46269666)

Serious question: what tools only support netrc for authentication? I'm aware of lots of tools that (unfortunately IMO) support netrc as a source of credentials, but I can't think of a single one that requires it.

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Re:Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub or... by c0balt on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @02:58AM (#46299350)

Afaik, nix for https-based git(hub/lab/...) repositories and http-auth protected resources (via fetchurl and friends).

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