{"id":543,"date":"2024-04-10T14:37:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T14:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/04\/10\/beware-githubs-fake-popularity-scam-tricking-developers-into-downloading-malware\/"},"modified":"2024-04-10T14:37:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T14:37:54","slug":"beware-githubs-fake-popularity-scam-tricking-developers-into-downloading-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/04\/10\/beware-githubs-fake-popularity-scam-tricking-developers-into-downloading-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware: GitHub&#8217;s Fake Popularity Scam Tricking Developers into Downloading Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThreat actors are now taking advantage of GitHub&#8217;s search functionality to trick unsuspecting users looking for popular repositories into downloading spurious counterparts that serve malware.<br \/>\nThe latest assault on the open-source software supply chain involves concealing malicious code within Microsoft Visual Code project files that&#8217;s designed to download next-stage payloads from a remote URL,\u00a0Threat actors are now taking advantage of GitHub&#8217;s search functionality to trick unsuspecting users looking for popular repositories into downloading spurious counterparts that serve malware.<br \/>\nThe latest assault on the open-source software supply chain involves concealing malicious code within Microsoft Visual Code project files that&#8217;s designed to download next-stage payloads from a remote URL,\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThreat actors are now taking advantage of GitHub&#8217;s search functionality to trick unsuspecting users looking for popular repositories into downloading spurious counterparts that serve malware. The latest assault on the open-source software supply chain involves concealing malicious code within Microsoft Visual Code project files that&#8217;s designed to download next-stage payloads from a remote URL,\u00a0Threat actors&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/04\/10\/beware-githubs-fake-popularity-scam-tricking-developers-into-downloading-malware\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beware: GitHub&#8217;s Fake Popularity Scam Tricking Developers into Downloading Malware<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}