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hiciuyesterday at 1:11 PM4 repliesview on HN

Besides main issue here, and the owners account being possibly compromised as well, there's like 170+ low quality spam comments in there.

I would expect better spam detection system from GitHub. This is hardly acceptable.


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snailmailmanyesterday at 6:44 PM

The same thing occurred on the trivy repo a few days ago. A GitHub discussion about the hack was closed and 700+ spam comments were posted.

I scrolled through and clicked a few profiles. While many might be spam accounts or low-activity accounts, some appeared to be actual GitHub users with a history of contributions.

I’m curious how so many accounts got compromised. Are those past hacks, or is this credential steeling hack very widespread?

Are the trivy and litellm hacks just 2 high profile repos out of a much more widespread “infect as many devs as possible, someone might control a valuable GitHub repository” hack? I’m concerned that this is only the start of many supply chain issues.

Edit: Looking through and several of the accounts have a recent commit "Update workflow configuration" where they are placing a credential stealer into a CI workflow. The commits are all back in february.

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fdsjgfklsfdyesterday at 8:23 PM

Reporting spam on GitHub requires you to click a link, specify the type of ticket, write a description of the problem, solve multiple CAPTCHAs of spinning animals, and press Submit. It's absurd.

orfyesterday at 1:24 PM

i'm guessing it's accounts they have compromised with the stealer.

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ratdoctoryesterday at 6:20 PM

Or they're just bots. This repository has 40k+ stars somehow.