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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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[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Jokes on them, I don't keep shit in ~/Documents, all my goodies are on a network share mounted at ~/Netstore

[–] DaveX64@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

I was going to say that too, ha!

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