Latest release of MinGit 64 bits causes a Windows Defender alert

[adellieux]

Hi, Windows Defender prevents me from downloading MinGit 2.47.1 64 bits archive

https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/download/v2.47.1.windows.1/MinGit-2.47.1-64-bit.zip

Detected : Trojan:Script/Wacatac.B!ml

Local date/time : 26/11/2024 12:37

Details : This program is dangerous and it executes commands from a malicious person.

Affected elements : file: C:\Users\me\Downloads\MinGit-2.47.1-64-bit.zip

Web file : C:\Users\me\Downloads\MinGit-2.47.1-64-bit.zip|https://objects.githubusercontent.com/github-production-release-asset-2e65be/23216272/096338d4-5f2f-4571-8142-1d9acea3c1b3?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=releaseassetproduction%2F20241126%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20241126T113723Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=789faab973f8ec9a6ec7ad1ab2dde8422be6de5f39be4ca402bb09cdf883db17&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3DMinGit-2.47.1-64-bit.zip&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream|pid:26184,ProcessStart:133770946486816857

[rimrul]

Virustotal says 0/64 vendors flagged this file.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/50b04b55425b5c465d076cdb184f63a0cd0f86f6ec8bb4d5860114a713d2c29a/detection

So that was probably a false positive.