{"id":5709,"date":"2025-07-29T07:01:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/hackers-breach-toptal-github-publish-10-html\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T07:01:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:01:44","slug":"hackers-breach-toptal-github-publish-10-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/hackers-breach-toptal-github-publish-10-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Breach Toptal GitHub, Publish 10 Malicious npm Packages With 5,000 Downloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Hackers Breach Toptal GitHub, Publish 10 Malicious npm Packages With 5,000 Downloads<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>In what&#8217;s the latest instance of a software supply chain attack, unknown threat actors managed to compromise Toptal&#8217;s GitHub organization account and leveraged that access to publish 10 malicious packages to the npm registry.<br \/>\nThe packages contained code to exfiltrate GitHub authentication tokens and destroy victim systems, Socket said in a report published last week. In addition, 73 repositories<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/07\/hackers-breach-toptal-github-publish-10.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers Breach Toptal GitHub, Publish 10 Malicious npm Packages With 5,000 Downloads In what&#8217;s the latest instance of a software supply chain attack, unknown threat actors managed to compromise Toptal&#8217;s GitHub organization account and leveraged that access to publish 10 malicious packages to the npm registry. The packages contained code to exfiltrate GitHub authentication tokens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-5709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}