Ask HN: What are GitHub's push-farm botnets for?

By ghspamwatch · 2026-08-12 · 3 points · 0 comments

Every hour GH Archive records ~160K public GitHub events, and right now ~64% of the pushes are spam. Thousands of auto-created accounts (word+digits usernames like smithhoward5868, gibberish repo names) push hundreds of times an hour to fresh repos, 24/7. One repo, LiamBruh…

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