Mac Developer: How a college student tricked 17k coders into running his sketchy script | Ars Technica
How a college student tricked 17k coders into running his sketchy script | Ars Technica: "The eye-opening (if ethically questionable) research was conducted by University of Hamburg student Nikolai Philipp Tschacher as part of his bachelor thesis. Using a variation of a decade-old attack known as typosquatting, he uploaded his code to three popular developer communities and gave them names that were similar to widely used packages already submitted by other users."
Hmmm.
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