“People create thousands of GitHub repositories with all sorts of things - from Roblox and Fortnite mods to ‘cracked’ FL Studio and Photoshop.”
Hundreds of GitHub repos promise game mods and cracked software and deliver an infostealer. The scammers’ own guide says to buy GitHub accounts for $1.50 each and rewrite READMEs with AI. Only about 10% of the repos had a warning in their issues. GitHub left them up.