A technical paper from the researchers at Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science details how researchers discovered thousands of repositories on GitHub that offer fake proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for various vulnerabilities, some of them including malware. In an inspection of 47,313 downloaded and checked repositories, fully 10.3% (4893), were found to “have symptoms of malicious intent.” This number excluded fakes and prankware.
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