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10,000 cloned GitHub repos are delivering LuaJIT loaders — why engineering teams must stop trusting repo search results

A coordinated campaign has spun up roughly 10,000 fake GitHub repositories that clone real projects’ histories while swapping in malicious ZIP links and AI-written READMEs. Engineering teams, dependency scanners, and security ops need to treat repository search results and automated dependency pulls as potential attack surfaces, not trusted signals. Organized supply-chain mimicry, not random uploads […]

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GitHub’s CodeQL + AI detections: wider coverage and faster fixes — at the cost of continued human review

GitHub is rolling AI-powered security detections into the same workflow where developers review code, pairing those models with CodeQL static analysis to extend coverage into Shell/Bash, Dockerfiles, Terraform, PHP and other gaps in traditional scanning. The payoff is broader, earlier detection and faster remediation; the trade-off is additional governance and human review to catch AI […]

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