Malware crew Stargazers Goblin used 3,000 GitHub accounts to make bank Infosec researchers have discovered a network of over three thousand malicious GitHub accounts used to spread malware, targeting groups including gamers, malware researchers, and even other threat actors who themselves seek to spread malware. The research, penned by Antonis Terefos of Check Point Software, named the collection …
These days the Internet is a dangerous place to visit, not because all of the users are evil, but because so many of all our users don't do anything to avoid all the potential problems. And as we've seen recently, not every problem had been malware, a few have just been our updates ...
We were slightly safer originally when we were only just reading newspapers, opening our mailed letters and writing replies, so the Internet environment needs to be made so much safer, not just "better" because every new feature has been a problem since the Internet appeared with malware everywhere. A new safe Internet environmental evolution is going to be a huge change, circumstances like the original evolution of rowing boats around the world, to these days (much safer) of flying airplanes everywhere.
Seems like that might serve as encouragement for getting noticed - "Hey, did you see the awesome name they gave us?" Maybe instead give them horrible names that they'd be ashamed to have associated with them. Things like "Latrine Diver" or "Weapons-Grade B.O."
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