Malware attack on GitHub

Sharing this here to get awareness for devs because Discourse might be using one of the infected repo’s…

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The infected repos are clones of the originals, the originals are OK.

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We’re not aware of any impact to Discourse or our dependencies.

As @Mr.X_Mr.X mentioned, the tweet author has admitted that the findings were limited to forks/clones, rather than the true versions of dependencies:

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Ah that is good to know. Better safe then sorry, haha. Felt this was a place where devs at least should be aware of the malware.

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Welcome to internet! :grinning:

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