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

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. [...]

11:10 pm, July 21, 2026

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title: FakeGit campaign uses 7,600 GitHub repos to push SmartLoader malware
additional: 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. [...]
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