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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

GitHub is under automated attack by millions of cloned repositories filled with malicious code

www.pcgamer.com

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GitHub is under automated attack by millions of cloned repositories filled with malicious code

www.pcgamer.com

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
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Thanks to a combination of sophisticated methodology and social engineering, this particular attack seems to be very difficult to stop.
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    That will teach them a lesson about training models on random repositories.

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    This is bad, but only seems to be related to forks from main (correct me if I am wrong). So if you go to source, you should be OK.

    ‘adding its own malicious code which is concealed under seven layers of obfuscation’

    Behind seven vpns?

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      I’m thinking the code is obfuscated by random calls to various functions so that the code block isn’t just one section you can easily see but sprinkled throughout instead.

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        Yes that seems like the case, it just struck me as funny

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      You’re not OK. Not all forks are labeled as forks.

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        Thank you for the clarification

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