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FOSS project attacks on Github, malware injected in forks ransomware Linux machines (mhouge.dk)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Apparently there's a bunch of projects getting hit with this, fairly obscure ones though. Project gets forked, suddenly get a pile of stars more than the original, and then there's a curl-bash pipe inserted into it that runs some ransomeware that encrypts ~/Documents.

About a dozen other projects linked in here from another developer (excuse the Reddit link): https://old.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/1jbzuot/someone_copied_our_github_project_made_it_look/

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[–] 4 points 2 years ago

Yes, I agree, but then, what would be an alternative?

Any package manager that allows for ways to verify the source. These shitty script|bash lines are doing all sorts of nutty shit on your system, and that's ones that aren't even malicious.

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