2 papers
cs.CR2025
Six Million (Suspected) Fake Stars in GitHub: A Growing Spiral of Popularity Contests, Spams, and Malware
Hao He, Haoqin Yang, Philipp Burckhardt +3
GitHub, the de facto platform for open-source software development, provides a set of social-media-like features to signal high-quality repositories. Among them, the star count is…
cs.CR2025
Leveraging Large Language Models to Detect npm Malicious Packages
Nusrat Zahan, Philipp Burckhardt, Mikola Lysenko +2
Existing malicious code detection techniques demand the integration of multiple tools to detect different malware patterns, often suffering from high misclassification rates. There…