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GitHub besieged by millions of malicious repositories in ongoing attack
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 29 Feb 2024
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Sorta kinda wondering (conspiracy thought, totally no evidence, just a random thing that came to my mind) if this is either an attack on AI or attempt to compromise those who use AI to write their code. Or both.
Its because Github is stealing copyrighted code.