Beware, there is an ongoing spambot attack in #GitHub...

Beware, there is an ongoing spambot attack in #GitHub issues in several projects were random people suggest "the fix" is to download a random file from mediafire.com. Like this:

screenshot from a curl issue where users suggest suspicious downloads to "fix the issue"

Like 28 August at 7:11 | Open on mastodon.social

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Man2Dev :idle:

@bagder :blobcatfacepalm:

28 August at 7:14 | Open on fosstodon.org

Björn Fahller

@bagder ah, I got one of those. It seemed to be of low enough priority to safely ignore for the moment, but I now know to ignore it forever. Thanks.

28 August at 7:15 | Open on mastodon.social

Paul Barker

@bagder I saw one of those yesterday within a minute of someone opening an issue on one of my repos.

28 August at 7:17 | Open on social.afront.org

Bruno Philipe

@bagder mediafire dot com? that's a name I haven't heard in a long long time

28 August at 7:17 | Open on breakpoint.cafe

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