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PSA: HEADS UP EVERYONE! Another project noticed they were being targeted with similar social engineering tactics as the xz-utils backdoor attack. Be on the lookout for random people demanding that you add someone new as a maintainer for vague but urgent "reasons". Google their emails, check their GitHub/GitLab histories, see if they are on Mastodon/Reddit/"X"/LinkedIn. If they do not have an internet footprint, they are probably a plant.
https://openssf.org/blog/2024/04/15/open-source-security-openssf-and-openjs-foundations-issue-alert-for-social-engineering-takeovers-of-open-source-projects/
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