A Developer's Guide to Getting Rid of PolinRider

2026-08-14 Open Source Malware

https://opensourcemalware.com/blog/developer-guide-getting-over-polinrider

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North Korea's PolinRider campaign has expanded from more than 300 affected GitHub owners in March 2026 to over 2,000 owners and 4,000 compromised repositories by July. It infects developers through fake Contagious Interview coding tests, trojanized packages, and repositories or packages poisoned through previously compromised accounts. The malware steals development and cloud credentials, rewrites Git history to conceal injected payloads, and propagates through GitHub and multiple package ecosystems. Recovery requires removing local execution and persistence, cleaning remote repositories, auditing force-push activity, and rotating GitHub, CI/CD, cloud, browser, password-manager, and registry credentials.

Indicators of Compromise

Type Value First Seen Last Seen
IPv4 23.27.13.43 2026-07-28 2026-08-14
IPv4 166.88.54.158 2026-04-24 2026-08-14
IPv4 166.88.134.82 2026-04-11 2026-08-14
IPv4 198.105.127.210 2026-03-05 2026-08-14
IPv4 202.155.8.173 2025-10-20 2026-08-14
IPv4 154.91.0.103 2025-10-20 2026-08-14
IPv4 23.27.120.142 2025-10-20 2026-08-14
IPv4 136.0.9.8 2025-10-20 2026-08-14
IPv4 166.88.4.2 2025-10-20 2026-08-14
IPv4 23.27.202.27 2025-10-20 2026-08-14
IPv4 188.43.33.249 2025-04-23 2026-08-14

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