Hackers Hijack Five OVHcloud CLI Releases to Distribute Secret-Stealing Malware
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Hackers Hijack Five OVHcloud CLI Releases to Distribute Secret-Stealing Malware

The Hacker News · Oct 20, 2026

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Hackers Hijack Five OVHcloud CLI Releases to Distribute Secret-Stealing Malware
Security October 20, 2026

An attacker used a contributor's GitHub account to replace the download archives on five existing releases of OVHcloud's command-line tool on Monday, October 19. The account had been hijacked, and the new files were a build designed to steal secrets stored on the disk of any machine that runs it, the cloud provider says. They were live on GitHub for up to 94 minutes, from 12:47 to 14:21 UTC,

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