Phishing attack through GitHub notification

4 points by ghm2199 9mo ago ↗ HN

I got a phishing email from a repo I never subscribed to https://github.com/ycombbiinator/-co

The email looks like so https://pasteboard.co/HYYB7qg0tv2M.png

And I could see I was subscribed to the "issue" https://pasteboard.co/zIj5fcaIhNYA.png

4 comments

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gnabgib 9mo ago ↗

> The best email address for anything like this is security@ycombinator.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45353095

"Discussion" (17 points, 4 hours ago, 17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45352610

ghm2199 9mo ago ↗

I am sure I never subscribed to this repo. However I came across https://github.blog/changelog/2025-04-14-sunset-notice-for-a...

which possibly means one of the teams I had actually been a part of is the issue.

johntash 9mo ago ↗

I've gotten a few similar spam/phishing notifications from github recently too. It showed that my username was tagged in the issue (along with 10-20 others).

appdata 9mo ago ↗

I haven't gotten a phishing email, but I permanently have `ycombbiinator/-co` in my GitHub Notifications list. It doesn't display any notifications, but I have the blue notification icon. It's so annoying.

https://ibb.co/xKxXrKVL