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New malware campaign in GitHub, accounts spreading malware using MediaFire

Hello everyone,

There is a new malware campaign in GitHub where normal looking accounts are posting messages looking like this:

Download www.mediafire.com/file/DONOTCLICKMEORCOPY password: changeme In the installer menu, select "gcc."

I personally received 3 of these on the same issue but luckily GitHub takes action immediately and deletes the accounts when you report them.

( 3 comments | on HN )
Re:New malware campaign in GitHub, accounts spreading malwar... by thenickdude on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @04:03AM (#41377152)
Same here on my issue tracker, seems to be GitHub wide.

https://i.imgur.com/jJljJp8.png

They reply with the message to new issues, which makes their notification email look like a direct solution to the submitter's issue, so they'll probably catch out a lot of people...

Re:New malware campaign in GitHub, accounts spreading malwar... by goldfishlaser on Thursday August 29, 2024 @06:40PM (#41396074)
Does anyone know what the malware does? I just saw this myself.
Re:New malware campaign in GitHub, accounts spreading malwar... by thenickdude on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @05:47AM (#41443741)
A sandbox service identifies it as Lumma Stealer, so it'll at least steal all your passwords, cookies and cryptocurrency, and then anything else after that is fair game too:

https://socradar.io/malware-analysis-lummac2-stealer/