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> Has this ever happened? Unfortunately this has: https://www.wired.com/2015/12/researchers-solve-the-juniper-mystery-and-they-say-its-partially-the-nsas-fault
by er4hn 5y ago
> Has this ever happened?
Unfortunately this has: https://www.wired.com/2015/12/researchers-solve-the-juniper-mystery-and-they-say-its-partially-the-nsas-fault/ https://www.wired.com/2015/12/researchers-solve-the-juniper-...
While the full results were not released, it was pretty clear that a rogue commit happened to the VCS. This is the highest profile example that has occurred in my corner of the tech world.
The broader category of this attack is "insider threat" and it is a real thing. Even googling for "malicious code commit" turns up this other example for me as one of the first results: https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/29/php_repository_infected/ https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/29/php_repository_infect...
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- hannob 5y agoGiven Juniper released basically nothing about their investigation, I'm not convinced this is a valid example. Notably, I'm not just asking if there ever was a bad commit that was investigated - but that the commit came from someone who later claimed she/he didn't do it.