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Orange EV revives Freewire tech, gives it the best name in the business

https://electrek.co/2025/09/23/orange-ev-revives-freewire-tech-gives-it-the-best-name-in-the-busi...
1•breve•23s ago•0 comments

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1•c420•2m ago•0 comments

GitHub Y Combinator phishing attack ongoing

https://github.com/ycombiinator/ycombinator-co/issues
2•computersuck•4m ago•1 comments

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Ask HN: Is the Y Combinator GitHub bot real or scam?

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4•Improvement•48m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Mass phishing emails pretending to be Y Combinator right now

6•Tremeschin•1h ago
Just received quite a smart phishing email/notification coming from "GitHub" by a user created less than a week ago (1) which is currently creating multiple issues a minute tagging many random usernames in a repository (2) with a "ycombinatornotify" app (3). The usual - asking to verify wallets, deposit for authorization as I've been selected for funding, etc. All issues contains the content of the email received, so I'll not paste them here (they're gone, but still, a bad idea to paste it).

- (3m in) They seem to have been rate limited or reached a target of 500 issues

- (5m in) Repository was just taken down, hope they automate back a warning

- They have typo-squatted the "y-comb[l]nator [dot] com" domain (with hyphen and L)

Quite urgent actions are needed to stop it, or warn the affected. Will update the submission with more information as time goes.

- [1]: https://github.com/ycombinato/

- [2]: https://github.com/ycombinato/rorg/

- [3]: https://github.com/apps/ycombinatornotify

Comments

rolph•1h ago
you should email hn@ycombinator.com attn: Dang
tomhow•1h ago
Thanks, but it's a YC security issue not an HN/dang issue – security@ycombinator.com!
rolph•57m ago
it seems that i have very recently aquired some new links in my footer, one of them is what your mentioning.

either its something i have changed on this particular agent, somthing changed on HN, or a newly aquired feat due to accumulated X.P.

thanx for pointing at it.

Bender•1h ago
Be sure to email this to Daniel dang hn@ycombinator.com and flag the email as high priority. Be sure to include all the email headers.

Also report it to github [1] and the Feds [2] in the off chance someone takes it seriously. Be sure to include all the email headers here too.

[1] - https://docs.github.com/en/communities/maintaining-your-safe...

[2] - https://www.ic3.gov/

Tremeschin•1h ago
Thanks! Just wrote them a warning and forwared the original message.
tomhow•1h ago
Thanks, but it's a YC security issue not an HN/dang issue – security@ycombinator.com!
tomhow•1h ago
Thanks, we're getting a lot of emails about this to hn@ycombinator.com.

The best email address for anything like this is security@ycombinator.com, as they handle security issues for all of YC, including applications.

Thanks everyone for letting us know about this.

Tremeschin•50m ago
And another round of mass user tagging at a 'gitcoin-org' username, same message vibe, stopped at 500 issues. This is now a GitHub's duty I assume. Potentially more, I see a couple different names on r/github. Yup, via https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/174283
DaxSudo•34m ago
Yea I just saw this notif on my GH app.
domdfcoding•21m ago
Still at it with a different repo and app that hasn't (yet) been nuked, but I have reported to GitHub.