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GitHub besieged by millions of malicious repositories in ongoing attack (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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GitHub besieged by millions of malicious repositories in ongoing attack

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[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

But... why?

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago

To try and take over other people's ci/cd pipelines and inject malware into otherwise legitimate application binaries.

[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago

LastPass hack happened due to a developer logging I. On their home PV which had an outdated and vulnerable version of Plex installed. Swap outdated for “maliciously forked” and now attackers have legit code that can run for months before they use what they’ve injected to take over.

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why would somebody want to steal my login credentials‽‽

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

That would be silly, it would only go to accounts that aren't theirs.