Someone Is Hacking GitHub Repositories and Holding Code Ransom

Posted by LopRabbit on Thursday December 05, 2019 @01:08AM
from the vice.com dept.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vb9v33/github-bitbucket-repositories-ransomware

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Re:Someone Is Hacking GitHub Repositories and Holding Code R... by rajatsharma91 on Thursday December 05, 2019 @01:46AM (#21710444)

To be clear, this only works for closed source projects. For an open source project, nobody will care if their code gets "held for ransom" since its already out in the open.

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Re:Someone Is Hacking GitHub Repositories and Holding Code R... by rurban on Thursday December 05, 2019 @02:53AM (#21710659)

Not just github, also gitlab and bitbucket. A very trivial attack, with a very trivial fix.

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