10,000 GitHub Repositories Found Distributing Trojan Malware
Original: I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware
A researcher uncovered roughly 10,000 GitHub repositories actively serving Trojan malware to unsuspecting users.
A security researcher published findings identifying approximately 10,000 GitHub repositories that distribute Trojan malware. The scale of the campaign suggests an organized, systematic effort to abuse GitHub's trusted platform for malware distribution. Developers and open-source consumers who clone or run code from unvetted repositories are at direct risk.
A security researcher publishing on orchidfiles.com has disclosed a large-scale malware distribution campaign operating through GitHub, identifying roughly 10,000 repositories that serve Trojan malware to users who download or execute their contents.
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