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ikidd@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish ·
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FOSS project attacks on Github, malware injected in forks ransomware Linux machines

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Rogue One: A Malware Story
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While adding support for jqfmt to my markdown code block formatter (mdsf, mdsf#700), I came across something weird.

Apparently there’s a bunch of projects getting hit with this, fairly obscure ones though. Project gets forked, suddenly get a pile of stars more than the original, and then there’s a curl-bash pipe inserted into it that runs some ransomeware that encrypts ~/Documents.

About a dozen other projects linked in here from another developer (excuse the Reddit link): https://old.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/1jbzuot/someone_copied_our_github_project_made_it_look/

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    lol, just checked. ~/Documents doesn’t even exist on my machine.

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      Average arch user

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        oh oh, I’m a below average arch user. I suspect i copied most of my hoome from debian or something.

        I’ll rename it to Dickuments as a security feature.

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      Me neither, I nuke the default freedesktop folders on an install because they clutter up my home folder. But I’d imagine we’re the exception.

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