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Cryptojackers Found on Starbucks WiFi Network, GitHub, Pirate Streaming Sites

The cryptojacking trend is not showing any signs of stopping anytime soon, and recent reports highlight some peculiar new ways that miscreants have found for pushing in-browser miners down their users' throats.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- December 13, 2017
- 09:25 AM
- 0
PSA: Bitcoin Gold (BTG) Official Windows Wallet App Might Have Been Compromised

The team behind the Bitcoin Gold (BTG) cryptocurrency have issued a security alert warning all users about a security incident involving the official Windows wallet application offered for download via its official website.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- November 28, 2017
- 04:15 PM
- 0
82% of the Code on GitHub Consists of Clones of Previously Created Files

Most source code files hosted on GitHub are actually clones of previously created files, according to a recent study conducted by a joint team of researchers from the University of California, Irvine, the Czech Technical University, Microsoft Research, and Northeastern University.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- November 20, 2017
- 05:23 PM
- 2
Github Will Warn Developers About Vulnerable Dependencies in Their Projects

GitHub — the Internet largest code hosting service — is rolling out a new security feature through which it hopes to reduce the number of vulnerable projects hosted and distributed through its platform.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- November 17, 2017
- 12:30 AM
- 1
2016 Open-Source Repo Continues to Fuel the PHP Server Ransomware Scene

A PHP ransomware project open-sourced on GitHub is still spawning active threats, more than a year after it was released in early 2016.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- August 15, 2017
- 07:01 PM
- 2
Petition Asks Adobe to Open-Source Flash for the Sake of Internet History

A petition on GitHub is asking Adobe to release Flash into the hands of the open-source community. Finnish developer Juha Lindstedt started the petition a day after Adobe announced plans to end Flash support by the end of 2020.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- July 30, 2017
- 05:25 AM
- 4
GitHub Users Targeted with Dimnie Trojan

Developers sharing code on GitHub are being targeted in a malicious email campaign that's infecting their computers with a modular trojan known as Dimnie.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- March 29, 2017
- 10:15 AM
- 0

Cryptojackers Found on Starbucks WiFi Network, GitHub, Pirate Streaming Sites

PSA: Bitcoin Gold (BTG) Official Windows Wallet App Might Have Been Compromised

82% of the Code on GitHub Consists of Clones of Previously Created Files

Github Will Warn Developers About Vulnerable Dependencies in Their Projects

2016 Open-Source Repo Continues to Fuel the PHP Server Ransomware Scene

Petition Asks Adobe to Open-Source Flash for the Sake of Internet History

GitHub Users Targeted with Dimnie Trojan