GitHub has issued a security alert on Thursday warning about a new malware strain that's been spreading on its site via boobytrapped Java projects.

An academic paper [PDF] published in 2018 identified a code snippet Lundblad posted on the site as the most copied Java code taken from StackOverflow and then re-used in open source projects.

GitHub has again upgraded the AI tech behind its Copilot 'AI pair programmer,' which reportedly already generates 61 percent of Java Code in editors where it's used and 46 percent across all languages ...