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The Bot That Never Was (opens in new tab)

By Ionut-Cristian Florescu (@icflorescu), written June 6, 2026, while still locked out. How the Miasma worm, a Shai-Hulud strain that this week also hit 73 Microsoft repositories, forged a github-actions commit into five of my open-source repositories, locked me out of a sixteen-year-old GitHub account, and how, into the third day, GitHub remains silent while the payload stays live By Ionut-Cristian Florescu (@icflorescu), written June 6, 2026, while still locked out. TL;DR for the busy reade...

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