Attackers use typo-squatting, obfuscation, and fake accounts to slip Python-based malware into open-source projects, raising fresh alarms for OSS supply chain security. A threat group dubbed “Banana ...
Private and deleted GitHub repositories are not as secure as users might assume. Data from deleted forks, deleted repositories, and private repositories can still be accessed, often indefinitely. This ...
Cyberattackers in just the last few months have registered more than 100,000 — but by some estimates more than a million — malicious copycat repositories on GitHub. The "repo confusion" scheme is ...
GitHub is struggling to contain an ongoing attack that’s flooding the site with millions of code repositories. These repositories contain obfuscated malware that steals passwords and cryptocurrency ...
Millions of developers and users are on alert as the popular code-sharing platform GitHub faces a large-scale attack. Security researchers at Apiiro have identified a concerning trend where malicious ...
Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is exposing the contents of more than 20,000 private GitHub repositories from companies including Google, Intel, Huawei, PayPal, IBM, Tencent and, ironically, ...