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How I found 10,000 GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware

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How I found 10,000 GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware

This is the story of how I found 10,000 repositories on GitHub that distribute Trojan malware. They are all from different contributors, have different names, and are not forks of other repositories. But they share a common pattern, which is what allowed me to write a script to find

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