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GitHub is under automated attack by millions of cloned repositories filled with malicious code. (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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GitHub is under automated attack by millions of cloned repositories filled with malicious code.::Thanks to a combination of sophisticated methodology and social engineering, this particular attack seems to be very difficult to stop.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

New accounts exist and have good reason to exist. You can't and shouldn't ban new accounts from creating projects.

Anyone capable of understanding what "web of trust" means is already way too sophisticated to be misled by these fake projects.