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Same thing happened to one of my repos in Feb. I wrote up the details with screenshots. https://reducibl.com/writing/someone-used-my-repo-to-distribute-malware
by davidcrowe 4mo ago
Same thing happened to one of my repos in Feb. I wrote up the details with screenshots.
https://reducibl.com/writing/someone-used-my-repo-to-distribute-malware https://reducibl.com/writing/someone-used-my-repo-to-distrib...
- dawnerd 4mo agoDid Github ever do anything?
- davidcrowe 4mo agoYea, they removed the fork <24 hours after I reported it
- theorchid 4mo agoThank you. I've added a link to your article in my article.
- KolmogorovComp 4mo agoThanks for the writing, which would have been even better had it been written by a human.
- theorchid 4mo agoWhy do you think it wasn't written by a human?
- KolmogorovComp 4mo agoHave you read the article? > that’s not a developer contributing to open source. that’s someone manufacturing the appearance of activity. > the attacker’s own profile? no bio, no avatar, 499 contributions crammed into january–february 2026. > this wasn’t random > i reported the repo to github. the ticket is open. but this raises a question i keep coming back to
- theorchid 4mo agoThanks. I checked the text using the gptzero service. It shows that 100% of the text was generated by AI. I removed the link from my article. I checked out the other pages on his website. And his other articles. AI-generated content is absolutely everywhere. Oh, I'm so tired of AI-generated texts.