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The online platforms GitHub and the 'Build on Circle' Discord server have recently become targets of cyber attacks, with GitHub experiencing a significant increase in spam and scam notifications. Users have reported being tagged in scam comments for the third time today and receiving 15 GitHub notifications, 14 of which were from spam bots. This has raised concerns about the impact on open source projects. The 'Build on Circle' Discord server was also reported to have been hacked, prompting warnings for users to be cautious.
Hey @github what's going on with your platform? Lots of scam notifications the past few days. https://t.co/pkdUHKgev6
A lot of scammers on Github today 🤔 Kept mentioned by fake issues https://t.co/BEZNrEipu2
github is starting to have a serious spam problem. been getting tagged in so many bogus, automated crypto issues. woke up to 15 github notifications today and 14 were from spam bots – which imho really hurts open source. anyone have a good way of preventing / muting these?
