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Created: 2025-07-17 16:07:26 UTC

Recently, GitHub has been flooded with millions of malicious code repos - and the attack is ongoing.

So how do you protect your repos from these imposters?

In this guide, you'll learn mitigation strategies like verifying profiles, examining commit patterns & histories, comparing files, & more.



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