FakeGit's operator re-aimed more than 13,000 existing GitHub repositories at the SmartLoader malware in 34 hours, Apiiro found. At least 700 of the accounts involved appear to belong to legitimate developers, so a credible-looking owner is weak evidence that a download is safe.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives45
- Confidence60
Anthropic is signing affected users out, stripping saved payment methods and issuing refunds after someone began pulling Claude cookies out of ordinary stealer logs and spending other people's quota.
Perspective Coverage
7 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 19%
- Operator
- Operator 72%
- Investor
- Investor 9%
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives40
- Confidence60
Island says the adversary-in-the-middle service runs on at least 755 domains against hundreds of organizations. The session it steals arrives after an authentication the identity provider records as entirely normal.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives65
- Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher FlashPoint pulled 555 AI-service tokens out of a single 44,791-token stealer dump, 24 of them still valid, and five dollars is the Telegram bulk price because a copied session leaves the victim's own login working.
Reality
- Evidence22
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+45
- Incentives55
- Confidence28
Insikt Group counted 215 actively exploited CVEs in six months, up 34% year on year, and describes attackers running them through remote access utilities, package registries and payment flows defenders already permit.
Reality
- Evidence61
- Adoption63
- Hype gap−7
- Incentives71
- Confidence57
The company told affected customers by email, with nothing on its status page, and the only symptom on the user's side was usage that refilled and drained on its own. Watching that burn is now the account holder's job.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives55
- Confidence45
SlowMist's August 28 report describes a GitHub page promising offline Qwen 3.8 27B weights and handing over a 487KB stealer instead. The byte count on a download is the cheapest integrity control a team still owns.
Reality
- Evidence41
- Adoption54
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives66
- Confidence44