GitHub faces widespread malware attacks affecting projects, including crypto
The developer who found the vulnerability requested developers to sign their revisions with the GPG key to ensure all their revisions on the project can be verified. Major developer platform GitHub faced a widespread malware attack and reported 35,000 “code hits” on a day that saw thousands of Solana-based wallets drained for millions of dollars.The widespread attack was highlighted by GitHub developer Stephen Lucy who first reported the incident earlier on Wednesday. The developer came across the issue while reviewing a project he found on a Google search.I am uncovering what seems to be....
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