Fake Researcher Profiles Spread Malware through GitHub Repositories as PoC Exploits

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Fake Researcher Profiles Spread Malware through GitHub Repositories as PoC Exploits

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Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works · 1 year ago

Several fake researcher GitHub accounts are pushing malicious code, claiming to exploit zero-day flaws in Discord, Google Chrome.

This won’t apply to anyone here, because we’re all reviewing any code we clone from GitHub prior to executing it on our system, right?

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