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> I'm sure they've built very sophisticated filtering tools, but imagine someone slips through the cracks and gets a cryptominer working.

It's been done, multiple times. Here's a handful (96) of documented cases which are somewhat recent. [0][1]

It seems to be surprisingly easy to abuse the process, and GitHub are continually playing catch up.

[0] https://dev.to/thibaultduponchelle/the-github-action-mining-...

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-action...



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