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FakeGit campaign uses 7,600 GitHub repos to push SmartLoader malware

  • Bill Toulas--BleepingComputer
  • published date: 2026-07-21 22:34:17 UTC

A large-scale operation dubbed 'FakeGit' is pushing SmartLoader and StealC malware through 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories that accumulated more than 14 million downloads. [...]

A large-scale operation dubbed ‘FakeGit’ is pushing SmartLoader and StealC malware through 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories that accumulated more than 14 million downloads. Over 800 repositories … [+3994 chars]