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Sead Fadilpašić

GitHub repositories are being attacked and wiped in new extortion scam

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GitHub users are falling victim to an ongoing extortion campaign that threatens to delete their data for good.

Cybersecurity researchers from CronUp have warned of a threat actor with the alias Gitloker breaking into people’s GitHub accounts, stealing the contents, and then wiping the accounts clean.

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