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Hackers use Github vulnerability disguised as Linus saying they will release a "metacostem system"

On the evening of January 26, a message signed by Linux, the "father of Linux", appeared on Github saying that meta-universe system MetaSoft would be released, which would be greater than Linux and Git, but nothing has been released since then.

Subsequently, the reporter checked the relevant information and found that someone may have taken advantage of the Github vulnerability to disguise it as Linus.

Hackers use Github vulnerability disguised as Linus saying they will release a "metacostem system"
Hackers use Github vulnerability disguised as Linus saying they will release a "metacostem system"

An industry insider told www.thepaper.cn, "There are some technical strange things about this, such as this note being published in a downstream repository of the Linux repository (forked) and not being committed to a branch of the linux main repository." If this is true, why put it under a Linux repository instead of opening a new one? ”

Hackers use Github vulnerability disguised as Linus saying they will release a "metacostem system"

Linux (full name GNU/Linux) was first released by Linus Benedict Torvalds in 1991 as a free-to-use and freely disseminated UNIX-like operating system, which was called the opening of the Linux era and has had a profound impact on the Internet today.

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