{"id":1090,"date":"2025-01-01T10:01:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T10:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/01\/over-31-million-fake-stars-on-github-projects-used-to-boost-rankings\/"},"modified":"2025-01-01T10:01:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T10:01:01","slug":"over-31-million-fake-stars-on-github-projects-used-to-boost-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/01\/over-31-million-fake-stars-on-github-projects-used-to-boost-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 3.1 million fake &#8220;stars&#8221; on GitHub projects used to boost rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Over 3.1 million fake &#8220;stars&#8221; on GitHub projects used to boost rankings<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>GitHub has a problem with inauthentic &#8220;stars&#8221; used to artificially inflate the popularity of\u00a0scam\u00a0and malware distribution repositories, helping them reach more unsuspecting users. [&#8230;]<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bill Toulas<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/over-31-million-fake-stars-on-github-projects-used-to-boost-rankings\/\">Go to bleepingcomputer<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 3.1 million fake &#8220;stars&#8221; on GitHub projects used to boost rankings GitHub has a problem with inauthentic &#8220;stars&#8221; used to artificially inflate the popularity of\u00a0scam\u00a0and malware distribution repositories, helping them reach more unsuspecting users. [&#8230;] Bill Toulas Go to bleepingcomputer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,133,254],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bleepingcomputer","category-security","category-software","tag-bleepingcomputer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}