In May of this year, our open-source software startup Elementl closed a successful Series B round. In the run-up to the fundraising, I spent a fair amount of time preoccupied with GitHub stars. If you ...

Checkmarx is calling the latest attack technique ‘StarJacking,’ which relies on inflated star ratings to lure developers into traps. Cybersecurity company Checkmarx said it has discovered that hackers ...

GitHub has a problem with inauthentic "stars" used to artificially inflate the popularity of scam and malware distribution repositories, helping them reach more unsuspecting users. Stars are similar ...