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Red Hat employee's GitHub account hit by network compromise

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The Red Hat employee's GitHub account was compromised and used as patient zero for a package-injection incident, bypassing code review and seeding malicious commits into two RedHatInsights repositories. The foothold enabled malicious payload delivery into @redhat-cloud-services packages and raised the risk of downstream credential theft. The compromise also increased the chance that trusted software updates could be abused to spread further malicious changes.

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Timeline

  1. 01.06.2026 20:40 1 articles · 4h ago

    Miasma string first appears in a GitHub commit

    Technical Analysis Update

    OX Security noted that the first commit containing the string "Miasma: The Spreading Blight" appeared on May 29, 2026, suggesting the variant was active by then or was being tested. The related activity was tied to a compromised Red Hat employee's GitHub account that was used as patient zero to inject malicious payloads into two RedHatInsights repositories.

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  2. 01.06.2026 20:40 2 articles · 4h ago

    Miasma compromises @redhat-cloud-services npm packages

    Initial Disclosure

    Researchers described a Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain campaign codenamed Miasma that compromised @redhat-cloud-services packages to steal credentials and secrets from developer machines and deliver a self-propagating worm. Evidence suggests a compromised Red Hat employee's GitHub account served as patient zero for malicious orphan commits into two RedHatInsights repositories, and attribution remained unknown.

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