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A hacker group is poisoning open source code at an unprecedented scale

A hacker group known as TeamPCP has been carrying out a series of software supply chain attacks, targeting open-source code repositories.

Source Ars Technica AI Summary Updated May 22, 2026

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A hacker group known as TeamPCP has been carrying out a series of software supply chain attacks, targeting open-source code repositories. The group's latest victim is GitHub, where they have been poisoning code. The scale of the attacks is described as unprecedented.

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