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Using Legitimate GitHub URLs for Malware

ID: 98fe55ed-bc45-5d70-8f23-7844edcca28e

STIX ID: report--98fe55ed-bc45-5d70-8f23-7844edcca28e

Feed Name: Schneier on Security

Threat Score
65/100

Date Published: 2024-04-22

Date Updated: 2026-04-19

Author: Bruce Schneier

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The post warns that attackers are abusing GitHub comment attachments to host and serve malware files tied to legitimate repository URLs (for example, a LUA loader distributed via the vcpkg repo), enabling convincing social-engineering lures that appear to come from trusted projects and potentially broadening malware distribution.

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