Attackers compromised 42 GitHub repositories by using files too large to be searched

A security research firm reported Monday that it had identified breaches of 42 third-party GitHub repositories in which attackers had deployed payload blobs large enough “to evade the GitHub search and API paths normally used to find this kind of compromise.” The report from JFrog Security Research said the victimized repositories contained execution hooks for AI coding assistants and IDEs, along with polymorphic wrappers as large as 13.7MB that “all decoded to the same hidden CI-publisher paylo