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Carnegie Mellon University

fake github stars

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New research from Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science shows that GitHub users increasingly buy or trade for fake stars, then use their ill-gotten gains to attract unsuspecting users so they can steal their cryptocurrency, swipe their credentials or trick them into downloading malicious software.

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Carnegie Mellon University

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