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Comment by kamranahmed_se | Hacker News Reader

Spam!!!! Almost all the stars are from the throwaway/spam accounts!

I agree that something is up with the stars. It was <10k some weeks ago, which was the last time I was on the GitHub page. Also, it seem that new issues on the tracker are being flooded with spam (https://github.com/x64dbg/x64dbg/issues/1864).

With that being said, the x64dbg project itself is definitely not just some spam project. I've been using it in place of OllyDbg for about 2 years now and I like it alot. IMO, it's basically a modern open-source successor to OllyDbg. Also, the project blog has some really neat posts like weekly digests of what has changed in the project (Though, I think these might have stopped sadly), unpacking windows kernel drivers, and a lot of design problems & solutions.

This is being downvoted, but in the process of trying to disprove this I actually discovered it could be true.

Two recent stargazers are http://archive.is/cbPm1 and http://archive.is/o0uzH; both accounts are in "cn" and use an email address with an invalid TLD.

Another two, http://archive.is/x5IBA and http://archive.is/KUnOg, have less "definitely spam" indicators; the only thing they have in common is that x64dbg is the only repo they've starred, that they have no other activity, and that they were created ~two days ago.

Have fun poking through the stargazer list.

I'm very curious as to explanations. Right now I'm not sure whether to wonder if this HN submission is a stargazer-generating demonstration or if I'm just seeing normal github activity (where "normal" means "spammers doing their weird thing").

i don't know, i like this debugger

Note that I have no issue with x64dbg and don't suspect the project. See the other very strange comments elsewhere in this subthread

I think there might actually be something going on weird with this project on Github's end. I've never heard of this project but started getting alerts in my email for it this morning. My account has apparently stared and watched this project. I hadn't used that account for awhile and the security page for my account doesn't show any logins for my account except from this morning, which leads me to believe that it probably wasn't compromised.

The same happened with my Github account.

Same here, been getting lots of emails regarding issues I've supposedly followed for the past few hours. It's got me worried a bit as security audit log shows nothing. Something stinks so think I'll change my password to be safe.

Same with me as well, nothing in the security log. Something is definitely wrong here, how could I get subscribed to issues on a project I've never heard of. Was my account compromised? I've even had 2 Factor Authentication enabled since July 2017.

I received a notification today from Github indicating my account was compromised and reached out on why it did not display in my security status. They indicated that the account was accessed via API and that I should enable two factor.

Why raises the question -- how were YOU compromised with 2 factor on?

Main author of x64dbg here. This is very probably the case and I contacted Github support to figure out what is going on. Before today we had around 3k (legit) stars.

I've never heard of your project but woke up this morning when my phone started buzzing with alerts from issue #1864. Looks like my account somehow has ended up starring and watching your project. That probably explains why you have replies to that issue saying "Unsubscribe" and "what?"

Whatever the fake stars: thank you for your great tool Mr Exodia. ;)

Wow.

I am very very curious to learn what happened with this. Have GitHub told you anything yet?

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