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Dev tools · February 27, 2025

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Prevent merging of malicious code in pull requests and CI/CD

GitHub launched on February 27, 2025 with 13 votes, #1,198 of 5,999 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

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What it does

A GitHub app that detects malicious code in pull requests and prevents it from getting merged. Alongside it, also released a Semgrep ruleset for detection at any stage of the CI/CD.

Prevent merging of malicious code in pull requests - apiiro/PRevent

A self-hosted GitHub app that listens for pull request events, scans them for malicious code, and comments detections directly on the pull request. Typically, security scans are run by workflow files. However, files can be modified, and when dealing with source modification attacks, should be avoided. A GitHub-app approach addresses this gap, ensuring the scan is not bypassed while providing better flexibility. The app's logic can be leveraged to run any scan. All you need is to add a scanner method to the scan logic . Currently, PRevent detects dynamic code execution and obfuscation, patterns found in nearly 100% of malicious code attacks reported to this day, while being rare in benign…from github.com

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