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1208 points jamesberthoty | 1 comments | 16 Sep 25 11:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.242s | source

A lot of blogs on this are AI generated and such as this is developing, so just linking to a bunch of resources out there:

Socket:

- Sep 15 (First post on breach): https://socket.dev/blog/tinycolor-supply-chain-attack-affect...

- Sep 16: https://socket.dev/blog/ongoing-supply-chain-attack-targets-...

StepSecurity – https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/ctrl-tinycolor-and-40-npm-p...

Aikido - https://www.aikido.dev/blog/s1ngularity-nx-attackers-strike-...

Ox - https://www.ox.security/blog/npm-2-0-hack-40-npm-packages-hi...

Safety - https://www.getsafety.com/blog-posts/shai-hulud-npm-attack

Phoenix - https://phoenix.security/npm-tinycolor-compromise/

Semgrep - https://semgrep.dev/blog/2025/security-advisory-npm-packages...

1. DarkmSparks ◴[17 Sep 25 00:55 UTC] No.45270254[source]▶

>>45260741 (OP) #

Wow it got everything, aws keys, gcp keys, github tokens, thats a lot of cryptocoin mining instances that are going to be spun up. And a lot of unexpected bills people are going to be getting...

They really shouldn't have been stored unencrypted on peoples machines.... Ouch.

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Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised