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[โ€“] foobaz@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa ๐Ÿค”

Feature request: steal ed25519 keys too

[โ€“] mrwiggles@prime8s.xyz 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And this is why you password protect your ssh keys

[โ€“] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

It's honestly crazy that tools like npm don't force you to encrypt the tokens for the npm repos. They don't even support it. Any stupid read_file() with http.post() can screw 1000 people.

[โ€“] ShaunaTheDead@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This feels like a great application of AI to root around through the code of packages in these repos and find ones that access the ssh key directory at all to be looked at more thoroughly by a human.

[โ€“] CmdrKeen@lemmy.today 4 points 11 months ago

IDK, virus scanners and malware detectors could do these things before AI.

You could search for stuff like directly accessing the ~.ssh directory, or any invocations of wget or curl to download external scripts and run them through an interpreter and flag those for closer inspection.

If you want to get fancier, automate installing packages in an isolated environment (like a container or VM) and keep track of every file system access and network request they make.

Sure, eventually they'll figure out ways to obfuscate those things, too, but it could at least prevent people from doing things in such blatantly obvious ways.

[โ€“] dudinax@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What's a stream of packages?

[โ€“] blargerer@kbin.social 19 points 11 months ago

Its just a weird word choice for many/a group. If you read the article they are typo squatting legitimate packages with alternate versions that steal the ssh keys.