GitHub Says 3,800 Repositories Breached—TeamPCP Hackers Demand $50,000

A GitHub employee has unwittingly allowed 3,800 internal repositories to be breached after a device compromise with a poisoned VS Code extension.
Bleeping Computer

Salesloft: March GitHub repo breach led to Salesforce data theft attacks

Salesloft says attackers first breached its GitHub account in March, leading to the theft of Drift OAuth tokens later used in widespread Salesforce data theft attacks in August. Salesloft is a widely ...
Bleeping Computer

Clever 'GitHub Scanner' campaign abusing repos to push malware

A clever threat campaign is abusing GitHub repositories to distribute the Lumma Stealer password-stealing malware targeting users who frequent an open source project repository or are subscribed to ...
CSOonline

GitHub hit by a sophisticated malware campaign as ‘Banana Squad’ mimics popular repos

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 ...
Dark Reading

Hackers Post Dozens of Malicious Copycat Repos to GitHub

Cybercriminals continue to sneak malicious repositories onto GitHub. Typosquatting, dependency confusion, and other types of cyberattacks precipitated through malicious packages are old and common ...

In stunning display of stupid, secret CISA credentials found in public GitHub repo

Security researcher Brian Krebs brings us the news that America’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has had a large store of plaintext passwords, SSH private keys, tokens, and “other ...