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Techmeme (techmeme@techhub.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 02:10:43 JST Techmeme

Researchers suspect 4.5M "stars" on GitHub repos are fake; in July 2024, Check Point found a network of inauthentic users starring projects containing malware (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-31-million-fake-stars-on-github-projects-used-to-boost-rankings/
http://www.techmeme.com/241231/p12#a241231p12
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  Over 3.1 million fake "stars" on GitHub projects used to boost rankings
  
  from @BleepinComputer
  
  GitHub has a problem with inauthentic "stars" used to artificially inflate the popularity of scam and malware distribution repositories to appear more popular, helping them reach more unsuspecting users.
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  Researchers find 4.5M “stars” on GitHub repos they suspect are fake; in July, Check Point found a network of inauthentic users starring repos containing malware
  
  By Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer. View the full context on Techmeme.
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  Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 02:11:27 JST Evan Prodromou
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  @Techmeme great story! I wasn't aware of the copying algorithms for inauthentic social activity. It might be interesting to try on here.
  
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