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Nearly a million devices were infected in a huge GitHub malvertising campaign
Microsoft has alerted users to a malvertising campaign leveraging GitHub to infect nearly 1 million devices around the world. A new advisory from Microsoft Threat Intelligence stated that in December 2024 it detected a large-scale campaign using the developer platform as the primary vehicle to deliver the initial access payloads used in attacks. The campaign’s initial stage injects adverts into…
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Microsoft says malvertising campaign impacted 1 million PCs
Microsoft has taken down an undisclosed number of GitHub repositories used in a massive malvertising campaign that impacted almost one million devices worldwide. The company’s threat analysts detected these attacks in early December 2024 after observing multiple devices downloading malware from GitHub repos, malware that was later used to deploy a string of various other payloads on compromised systems. After…
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