Bleeping Computer

Over 3.1 million fake "stars" on GitHub projects used to boost rankings

GitHub has a problem with inauthentic "stars" used to artificially inflate the popularity of scam and malware distribution repositories, helping them reach more unsuspecting users. Stars are similar ...
Wired

A Hacker ‘Ghost’ Network Is Quietly Spreading Malware on GitHub

A secretive network of around 3,000 “ghost” accounts on GitHub has quietly been manipulating pages on the code-hosting website to promote malware and phishing links, according to new research seen by ...
TechRepublic

GitHub Universe: Open Source Trends Report and New AI Security Products

GitHub Universe: Open Source Trends Report and New AI Security Products Your email has been sent GitHub Advanced Security gains AI features, and GitHub Copilot now includes a chatbot option. GitHub ...
Hackaday

This Week In Security: The Github Supply Chain Attack, Ransomware Decryption, And Paragon

Last Friday Github saw a supply chain attack hidden in a popular Github Action. To understand this, we have to quickly cover Continuous Integration (CI) and Github Actions. CI essentially means ...
Dark Reading

GitHub Attack Vector Cracks Open Google, Microsoft, AWS Projects

Researchers have uncovered an attack vector that affected GitHub open source projects owned by Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and others, executed by abusing artifacts generated as part of ...
Dark Reading

Millions of Repos on GitHub Are Potentially Vulnerable to Hijacking

Millions of enterprise software repositories on GitHub are vulnerable to repojacking, a relatively simple kind of software supply chain attack where a threat actor redirects projects that are ...
Bleeping Computer

Dev rejects CVE severity, makes his GitHub repo read-only

The popular open source project, 'ip' recently had its GitHub repository archived, or made "read-only" by its developer. Fedor Indutny, due to a CVE report filed against his project, started getting ...