GitLab affected by GitHub-style CDN flaw allowing malware hosting

BleepingComputer recently reported how a GitHub flaw, or possibly a design decision, is being abused by threat actors to distribute malware using URLs associated with Microsoft repositories, making the files appear trustworthy. It turns out, GitLab is also affected by this issue and could be abused in a similar fashion. [...]

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