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I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware
This is the story of how I found 10,000 repositories on GitHub that distribute Trojan malware. They are all from different contributors, have different names, and are not forks of other repositories. But they share a common pattern, which is what allowed me to write a script to find
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Security & PrivacyOpen Source2026
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Jun 18, 2026 | I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware by theorchid | 987 | 248 |
