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Shai-Hulud 2.0: Guidance for detecting, investigating, and defending against the supply chain attack
Published:
9 December 2025 at 21:41:32
Alert date:
9 December 2025 at 23:01:20
Source:
microsoft.com
The Shai-Hulud 2.0 supply chain attack represents one of the most significant cloud-native ecosystem compromises observed recently. Attackers maliciously modified hundreds of publicly available packages across package repositories. The attack specifically targeted developer environments, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and cloud-connected workloads. The primary objective was to harvest credentials and configuration secrets from compromised systems. This represents a major supply chain compromise affecting the broader software development ecosystem. Microsoft has released guidance for detecting, investigating, and defending against this sophisticated attack campaign.
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CI/CD pipelines
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