Malicious code added to 35k GitHub repos, leaking user environments

Re:Malicious code added to 35k GitHub repos, leaking user en... by stevelacy on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @01:44AM (#32328056)

Many of the repos I found were clones of valid projects with same names under new orgs and new users. For instance, this projects is valid: https://github.com/scala-network/GUI-miner and it's infected clone: https://github.com/stellitecoin/gui-miner

GPG signed commits by the legitimate users do not contain the malware

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Re:Malicious code added to 35k GitHub repos, leaking user en... by laserlight on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @03:18AM (#32328608)

Considering that only clones are affected, your original tweet is downright wrong. None of the listed projects (python, js, bash, docker, k8s) are affected. Anybody can fork a repository to introduce malware.

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Re:Malicious code added to 35k GitHub repos, leaking user en... by eurasiantiger on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @03:31AM (#32328686)

js is a project?

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Re:Malicious code added to 35k GitHub repos, leaking user en... by laserlight on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @04:23AM (#32329049)

You're right. It's not. I just copy-pasted the list from the tweet. I assume that the author meant to write jq.

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