10,000 GitHub Repositories Found Distributing Trojan Malware
Hacker News (AI keywords)·40 days ago·Incident
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.
