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Beware: GitHub’s Fake Popularity Scam Tricking Developers into Downloading Malware

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Andy Stern
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Threat actors are now taking advantage of GitHub’s search functionality to trick unsuspecting users looking for popular repositories into downloading …

First seen on thehackernews.com

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