GitHub Vulnerability Exposes Over 4,000 Repositories to Repojacking Attacks

New vulnerability in GitHub puts more than 4,000 repositories at risk. The flaw turns the code packages vulnerable to repojacking attacks. After researchers reported the vulnerability to GitHub, the code hosting platform released a fix. Repository hijacking (repojacking) is a technique that enables the threat actor to evade a security mechanism called popular repository namespace […]

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