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Sead Fadilpašić

A cracked malicious version of a Go package lay undetected online for years

GitHub Webpage.

  • Someone forked a popular database module and fitted it with malware
  • The malicious fork was then cached and stored indefinitely
  • It was then creatively hidden in plain sight to target Go developers
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