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Colton Stradling

Microsoft's GitHub is under siege as security experts claim over 100,000 Github repositories are infected

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What you need to know

  • Apiiro, a cybersecurity firm, reported that GitHub has suffered a massive attack that could impact thousands of people. 
  • This attack involves cloning safe and clean repositories, adding malicious, obfuscated code, and reuploading them. 
  • GitHub is trying to delete the malicious repositories but can't seem to track them all. 
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