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GemStuffer Campaign Abuses RubyGems as Exfiltration Channel Targeting UK Local Government
GemStuffer abuses RubyGems as an exfiltration channel, packaging scraped UK council portal data into junk gems published from new accounts.
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Mixin to add caching capability to backbone data entities
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Mixin to add caching capability to backbone data entities.
We found that backbone.localcache demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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