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> I'm sure they've built very sophisticated filtering tools, but imagine someone slips through the cracks and gets a cryptominer working. It's been done, multi
by shakna 5y ago
> I'm sure they've built very sophisticated filtering tools, but imagine someone slips through the cracks and gets a cryptominer working.
It's been done, multiple times. Here's a handful (96) of documented cases which are somewhat recent. [0][1]
It seems to be surprisingly easy to abuse the process, and GitHub are continually playing catch up.
[0] https://dev.to/thibaultduponchelle/the-github-action-mining-attack-through-pull-request-2lmc https://dev.to/thibaultduponchelle/the-github-action-mining-...
[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-actions-being-actively-abused-to-mine-cryptocurrency-on-github-servers/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-action...