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Russian hackers are blatantly using GitHub to help the Russian army in Ukraine

2 points by app4soft 4y ago

gus_massa 4y ago
It looks like the repos are blocked now. What was there? I can't imagine the repos were useful. If they were developing a new algorithm to make misiles fly 10% more, I guess they would have been using a secret server inside the Kremlin instead of a public repo in GitHub.
- app4soft 4y ago
  > It looks like the repos are blocked now. Yes, its finally blocked.[0] > What was there? Archived snapshot: http://web.archive.org/web/20221104130632/https://github.com/RusItFront http://web.archive.org/web/20221104130632/https://github.com... It was a GitHub organization page with 8 repos, and according to its descriptions it includes "disassembled code" of few mobile apps used by Armed Forces of Ukraine. And this GitHub organization 'profile README' page included manifesto (in Russian) with a "call to collaborate to continue disassembling work to help Russian private military units to fight against Armed Forces of Ukraine". N.B. On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014.[1,2] [0] https://twitter.com/BartoszMilewski/status/1588510713831919616 https://twitter.com/BartoszMilewski/status/15885107138319196... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukrai...