Vulnerabilities & Threats
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35K Malicious Code Insertions in GitHub: Attack or Bug-Bounty Effort?35K Malicious Code Insertions in GitHub: Attack or Bug-Bounty Effort?
In the last month, "Pl0xP" cloned several GitHub repositories, adding malicious code to the forks that would attempt to infect developer systems and steal sensitive files that included software keys.
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