Comment on fake keepass repo on github

DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• ABasilPlant@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I need a recognisable domain name website that google or duckduckgo has picked as the product.

  This doesn’t always work. For example, I used to (and still do) see a lot of fake websites when I l type revanced (revanced.app) on duckduckgo, and I’ve nearly fallen for two of the fake ones before (I think two of .com / .org / .to…?)

  Thankfully ublock origin warns users of this:

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  Otherwise, I’d have 100% downloaded some malware-loaded crap.

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  • Imhotep@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just tried a search for Magisk and uBlock indeed does a great job at blocking all the scam websites.

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    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s important to note that new scam sites won’t be picked up until someone reports them, so there’s still a chance you’ll be one of the first to a new domain.

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• Imhotep@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I need to install Magisk.

  Google: 1st result: their Github page 2: magisk-manager.fr.uptodown.com/android 3: magiskmanager.com/ 4: magisk-manager.fr.softonic.com/android

  Kagi: 1st result: their Github page 2: magisk.me/ (icon showing it may be scam) 3: magiskmanager.com/ (scam icon) 4: themagisk.com/ (scam icon)

  No way I’m clicking on anything but the Github page. Kagi is somewhat better than Google, but you have to pay attention to the small warning icon. I would say bot search engines do a bad job and shouldn’t show those results (or have an option “show me unsafe websites”)

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• Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wait til you hear about npm.

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  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This reminds me of the new vector for malware that targets “vibe coders”. LLMs tend to hallucinate libraries that don’t exist. Like, it’ll tell you to add, install, and use jjj_image_proc or whatever. The vibe coder will then get an error like “that library doesn’t exist” and "can’t call jjj_image_proc.process()`.

    But you, a malicious user, could go and create a library named jjj_image_proc and give it a function named process. Vibe coders will then pull down and run your arbitrary code, and that’s kind of game over for them.

    You’d just need to find some commonly hallucinated library names

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  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As a Typescript developer, npm is a damn mess. I ain’t got a clue how to handle these dependencies.

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    • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s taught me that bigger standard libraries are better. You still have similar issues, but at least nobody’s importing LeftPad. And your remaining dependency probably isn’t importing LeftPad either.

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