The researchers have been tracking the campaign, dubbed Yoba, for the past two months. Its operator set up repositories and GitHub.io pages for supposed apps called GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus, and hosted the malware as ZIP releases on GitHub.
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Yoba malware hides in fake desktop versions of ChatGPT and Claude
Fake GitHub projects posing as desktop versions of ChatGPT and Claude have been used to spread a malware chain that ends with a cryptocurrency miner, Check Point has found.
Reported by helpnetsecurity.com.
