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GitHub is under automated attack by millions of cloned repositories filled with malicious code. (www.pcgamer.com)

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GitHub is under automated attack by millions of cloned repositories filled with malicious code.::Thanks to a combination of sophisticated methodology and social engineering, this particular attack seems to be very difficult to stop.

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[-] mlg@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Meh, they practically fold at every complaint to takedown tools that get accused of piracy.

Nintendo especially gets annoying about deleting every possible fork of some tiny script that extracts the switch keys.

Plus it's Microsoft, let them deal with it lol.

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