How malware hidden in a Tailwind CSS config file led to a production breach
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Couch Potato
Summary
A developer recounts discovering malware hidden in a tailwind.config.js file — a configuration file developers rarely inspect after initial setup. The malware was planted via a compromised dependency or supply chain attack, leading to a production breach that required credential rotation and incident response at 2am. The article serves as a cautionary tale about supply chain security, the dangers of blind trust in config files, and the importance of auditing every file in a project, even ones that seem innocuous.
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· 4 pulledI almost closed the file without reading it.
Three days later I was killing processes in production at 2am, rotating every credential I own, and staring at a git commit with my name on it that I never made.
It was tailwind.config.js. The file you touch once, when you're setting up the project, figuring out whether your primary color is blue-600 or blue-700. Then you never open it again.
Half of us didn't even write ours, it got spat out by some CLI or copied from a template.
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