Dangerous WebRAT malware now being spread by GitHub repositories

Cybersecurity researchers Kaspersky said they found 15 malicious repositories hosted on GitHub. These repositories, ...
Bleeping Computer

GitHub comments abused to push malware via Microsoft repo URLs

A GitHub flaw, or possibly a design decision, is being abused by threat actors to distribute malware using URLs associated with Microsoft repositories, making the files appear trustworthy. While most ...
Dark Reading

Millions of Malicious Repositories Flood GitHub

Cyberattackers in just the last few months have registered more than 100,000 — but by some estimates more than a million — malicious copycat repositories on GitHub. The "repo confusion" scheme is ...
Ars Technica

GitHub besieged by millions of malicious repositories in ongoing attack

GitHub is struggling to contain an ongoing attack that’s flooding the site with millions of code repositories. These repositories contain obfuscated malware that steals passwords and cryptocurrency ...
Bleeping Computer

Clever 'GitHub Scanner' campaign abusing repos to push malware

A clever threat campaign is abusing GitHub repositories to distribute the Lumma Stealer password-stealing malware targeting users who frequent an open source project repository or are subscribed to ...
TechRepublic

How to clone a GitHub repository: A quick tutorial

Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to clone a repository from GitHub. Git is the most widely-used distributed version control system on the planet. It’s free, open-source and can handle anything ...