GitHub Reacts to Growing Cryptocurrency Mining Attacks Using GitHub Actions
GitHub Reacts to Growing Cryptocurrency Mining Attacks Using GitHub Actions Like by As the market capitalization of cryptocurrency surged from $190 billion in January of 2020 to $2 trillion in April of 2021, its become profitable for bad actors to make a full time job of attacking the free tiers of platform-as-a-service providers. Chartier describes how an attacker can abuse GitHub Actions cron feature to create new commits every hour with the aim to mine cryptocurrencies. Because devel...
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