A hacker going by the handle “Pl0xP” cloned a large number of GitHub repositories and slightly changed the cloned repository names, in a typosquatting effort to impersonate legitimate projects — thus potentially infecting any software that imported the code, software experts said today.
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35K Malicious Code Insertions in GitHub: Attack or Bug-Bounty Effort?
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By Checkmarx Admin
- August 4, 2022
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