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Makes me think: Interesting spam vector: create a PR advertising whatever and then @ a bunch of people you scraped. Also interesting attack vector: get a easil
by quickthrower2 3y ago
Makes me think: Interesting spam vector: create a PR advertising whatever and then @ a bunch of people you scraped.
Also interesting attack vector: get a easily mistaken @ name and then see what you become reviewer on. Add malicious code to that PR and merge.
Edit: also what is stupid is at work when setting up your organisation security access you can add anyone globally in the combo search. No org-only filter is even available!
And of course most people use weird handles for their work or personal githubs. So using their UI you need to be an excellent human string comparator or make sure you copy and paste each persons handle which you meed to figure out for each person.
Attack 3: create a bunch of accounts with a similar name to people who work at target company and hope you get added to an org’s repo by mistake.
- dpedu 3y agoSome people have done it by accident: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users [2022] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31627061 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31627061
- quickthrower2 3y agoOh that made my day (the file changes that is…!)
- renewiltord 3y agoThis guy is a legend lmao Totally shite PR. "Fixes" things with even more typos. Bumps it all asking to "approve and merge asap"! Lmao!
- avgcorrection 3y agoI don’t know who should be embarrassed here. That org for having 400K members or Github for apparently having no limits on how many emails can be sent out with a simple `@`. In any case an honorable mention goes to the useless “lock this now” pile-on comments.