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Trend Micro’s Investigation Into GitHub Codespaces Reveals Malware Vulnerability

Trend Micro’s Investigation into GitHub Codespaces Reveals Malware Vulnerability

Trend Micro researchers have revealed how the port-forwarding feature within GitHub Codespaces is a vulnerability which cybercriminals could abuse to deliver and host malware. The researchers found that threat actors could abuse the public sharing of forward ports to create a malware server. All cybercriminals need to do to avoid detection and suspicion is use a legitimate GitHub account. As of yet, the security vulnerability hasn’t been exploited in the wild.

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