Beware: GitHub’s Fake Popularity Scam Tricking Developers into Downloading Malware

Threat actors are now taking advantage of GitHub’s search functionality to trick unsuspecting users looking for popular repositories into downloading spurious counterparts that serve malware.
The latest assault on the open-source software supply chain involves concealing malicious code within Microsoft Visual Code project files that’s designed to download next-stage payloads from a remote URL,
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