Millions of users of GitHub, the premier online platform for sharing open-source software, rely on stars to establish their software product's credibility. But new research from Carnegie Mellon ...

New analysis from Check Point Research traced the operation to a Rust-based clipboard hijacker, a "clipper" that swaps copied ...

GitHub has a problem with inauthentic "stars" used to artificially inflate the popularity of scam and malware distribution repositories, helping them reach more unsuspecting users. Stars are similar ...

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 ...