Comment by alphager

1 day ago

Name a few.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor

https://medium.com/@aleksamajkic/fake-sms-how-deep-does-the-...

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/linux/malicious-packag...

https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/04/22/phd-students-willful...

I could go on but I trust this is a sufficient number of examples.

  • Only two of these were actual malicious commits. Two others were malware inserted into the repositories (if Twitter could be thought of as a meta-repo), which is bad but not on the same scale.