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🖋️ FakeGit Campaign Uses 7,600 GitHub Repositories to Spread SmartLoader Malware 🖋️

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered nearly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories, out of which more than 800 pose as artificial intelligence AI skills or Model Context Protocol MCP servers to deliver a malware family known as SmartLoader as part of an ongoing campaign codenamed FakeGit. "FakeGit uses copied projects, lookalike developer profiles, convincing READMEs, and malicious ZIP.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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