Vulnerable Claude code in GitHub action led to stolen NPM keys (github.com)

submitted 1 month ago by qqq@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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Seems like a ton (over 1k) of people were affected because of an auto updating VS Code extension. Check your bashrc/zshrc and GitHub account if you use nx

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[-] Solemarc@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This doesn't look like a Claude issue or an AI issue, this looks like someone pushed malicious code to a repo and they where trying to make AI tools ignore these files? I'm not reading this wrong am I?

[-] qqq@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The command injection in the GitHub action code was written by Claude[1]. That was used to get the NPM key and then malware was pushed to NPM.

[1] https://github.com/nrwl/nx/pull/32458

this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2025

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