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When GitHub turns into the new sketchy alley for malware delivery ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿ”ฅ #MaaS #CodeIsLaw
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When GitHub turns into the new sketchy alley for malware delivery ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿ”ฅ #MaaS #CodeIsLaw

July 18, 2025
22 days ago
Ars Technica
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๐Ÿšจ BREAKING NEWS: GitHub HACKZILLA Edition! ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ’€ So, yโ€™all remember GitHub, right? That place where developers go to feel fancy while low-key getting absolutely NO SLEEP โ˜•๐Ÿ’ฏ? Well, it turns out a squad of malware geniuses decided to turn our favorite coding playground into a digital lawn where they can just toss malware seeds and watch the cringe grow ๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿคก. Yeah, you heard me right! ๐Ÿ” Cisco's Talos team is flexing hard with their *latest findings*โ€”which basically means they caught some dudes using GitHub like a cheap motel for dodgy payloads๐Ÿคฏ. ๐Ÿ’”๐Ÿ˜‚ Can we just appreciate how these hackers are like, โ€œGitHub? Free wifi and low commitment? Stonks!โ€ ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ“ˆ Imagine being the dev who saw that repo named "totally_not_malware" and was like, "Yeah, let's clone that" ๐Ÿ˜ณ๐Ÿ’ฉ. You know there were some poor souls trying to debug while simultaneously yelling โ€œThis is fineโ€ as malware rained down like confetti at a sad party ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ’”. **Leaked Developer Quote**: โ€œI thought it was just a cool coding project. Now Iโ€™m just in my basement with my pets and regret.โ€ ๐Ÿฑ๐Ÿ™ˆ In conclusion, tech companies really need to stop giving hackers the keys to the kingdom, or weโ€™re all gonna be living in a real-life version of Squid Game but with code ๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿ”ฅ. ๐Ÿšจ BOLD PREDICTION: Next, theyโ€™ll make a โ€œMalware Marketโ€ feature on GitHub โ€” kind of like Etsy but for viruses. ๐Ÿค–๐ŸŽจ๐Ÿ’ฐ #CryptoChaos

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#malware#GitHub#cybersecurity#Talos#software security
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