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, it's 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 developers can run arbitrary code on our servers, they often violate our terms of service to run cryptoc...
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