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Does GitHub actually prohibit programs that are up front about the fact they do something questionable? Considering there have been active repos for those steam
by tomatotomato37 4y ago
Does GitHub actually prohibit programs that are up front about the fact they do something questionable? Considering there have been active repos for those steam pirating DLLs on the site for ages I thought they only really go after hidden maliciousness
- mr_mitm 4y agoConsidering the entire open source pentesting community almost exclusively uses GitHub to host their projects: no. There is actual malware being hosted on GitHub, with the caveat that malware and pentest tools or proof of concept exploits are sometimes indistinguishable. GitHub announced a few years ago that they would crack down on malware and were about to introduce some very strict T&C. After a huge backlash from the pentesters (justified in my opinion), they backpedaled a little bit. Hosting pentesting tools is fine, using GitHub as your C2 server or to to deliver malware in actual attacks is not.
- RockRobotRock 4y agoI completely agree, despite the wording of my comment. In this case, the user has a different GH account for hosting their malware and C2, but the fact that they're so flagrant about it is what bothers me. I was a skid once, I get it, probably a lot of us were.