GitHub is rolling out support for the free scanning of exposed secrets (such as credentials and auth tokens) to all public repositories on its code hosting platform.

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 ...

Hackers planted malicious code in open source software packages with more than 2 billion weekly updates in what is likely to ...

In their advisory, the Aqua team demonstrated different exploitation scenarios, including automated downloads, manual downloads and code execution via repository releases. It also includes real-life ...

A Github repository is basically a folder designed to store files. It is also available online for anyone to download, access, and contribute to the files/code within the folder.

GitHub has announced it will be bringing its secret scanning capability to more users in a bid to help public repository admins detect leaked secrets in their repositories before a breach happens.

In all, 26 source-code repositories have been found that contain the malware, which the GitHub team said has a low detection rate on VirusTotal.

Ethereum smart contracts used to hide URL to secondary malware payloads in an attack chain triggered by a malicious GitHub ...