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

Ars Technica • Fri, 22 May 2026

GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks.

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GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks.

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GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks.

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