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Worm armed 42 GitHub repos by hiding a payload too big to fail
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IT Security News - cybersecurity, infosecurity newsWorm armed 42 GitHub repos by hiding a payload too big to fail
Payload blobs measuring 12.9 to 13.7 MB were large enough to evade GitHub code search
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It's bad code that works before the app even goes off.
A npm worm prepared 42 GitHub repositories and hid their malicious loads in files too large to appear in some regular searches. JFrog links the campaign with hijacked accounts, theft of credentials and mechanisms to spread between development packages and tools.
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