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Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2024

“gitgub” malware campaign targets Github users with RisePro info-stealer

Cybersecurity researchers discovered multiple GitHub repositories hosting cracked software that are used to drop the RisePro info-stealer. G-Data researchers found at least 13 such Github repositories hosting cracked software designed to deliver the RisePro info-stealer. The experts noticed that this campaign was named “gitgub” by its operators. The researchers started the investigation following Arstechnica’s story about […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2023

A new Repojacking attack exposed over 4,000 GitHub repositories to hack

A critical vulnerability in GitHub could have exposed more than 4,000 code packages to Repojacking attack. Checkmarx researchers discovered a new vulnerability in GitHub could have exposed over 4,000 packages to repojacking attacks. In the RepoJacking attack, attackers claim the old username of a repository after the legitimate creator changed the username, then publish a rogue […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2022

GitHub flaw could have allowed attackers to takeover repositories of other users

A critical flaw in the cloud-based repository hosting service GitHub could’ve allowed attackers to takeover other repositories. The cloud-based repository hosting service GitHub has addressed a vulnerability that could have been exploited by threat actors to takeover the repositories of other users. The vulnerability was discovered by Checkmarx that called the attack technique RepoJacking. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2022

GitHub: Nearly 100,000 NPM Users’ credentials stolen in the April OAuth token attack

GitHub provided additional details into the theft of its integration OAuth tokens that occurred in April, with nearly 100,000 NPM users’ credentials. GitHub provided additional details about the incident that suffered in April, the attackers were able to steal nearly 100K NPM users’ credentials. In April, GitHub uncovered threat actors using stolen OAuth user tokens to gain […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2022

Stolen OAuth tokens used to download data from dozens of organizations, GitHub warns

GitHub reported that threat actors used stolen OAuth user tokens to exfiltrate private data from several organizations. GitHub uncovered threat actors using stolen OAuth user tokens to gain access to their repositories and download private data from several organizations. Threat actors abused stolen OAuth user tokens issued to two third-party OAuth integrators, Heroku and Travis-CI, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2022

Dependency Review GitHub Action prevents adding known flaws in the code

Dependency Review GitHub Action scans users’ pull requests for dependency changes and will raise an error if any new dependencies have existing flaws. GitHub announced Dependency Review GitHub Action which scans users’ pull requests for dependency changes and will raise an error if any new dependencies have existing flaws that can be exploited in supply […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 16, 2021

GitHub addressed two major vulnerabilities in the NPM package manager

Maintainers of the npm package manager for the JavaScript programming language disclosed multiple flaws that were recently addressed. GitHub disclosed two major vulnerabilities in the npm that have been already addressed. The first vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to publish new versions of any npm package using an account without proper authorization. The flaw was reported by […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2021

Google open-sourced Allstar tool to secure GitHub repositories

Google has open-sourced the Allstar tool that can be used to secure GitHub projects and prevent security misconfigurations. Google has open-sourced the Allstar tool that can be used to secure GitHub projects by enforcing a set of security policies to prevent misconfiguration. “Allstar is a GitHub App installed on organizations or repositories to set and enforce security policies. Its […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 29, 2021

GitHub paid out over $500K through its bug bounty program for 203 flaws in 2020

Code repository hosting service GitHub announced that it has paid out more than $1.5 million through its bug bounty program since 2016. Code repository hosting service GitHub announced that it has paid $524,250 through its bug bounty program for 203 vulnerabilities affecting its products and services in 2020. The company revealed that it paid more than $1.5 million […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2021

Attackers are abusing GitHub infrastructure to mine cryptocurrency

The popular code repository hosting service GitHub is investigating a crypto-mining campaign abusing its infrastructure. Code repository hosting service GitHub launched an investigation in a series of attacks aimed at abusing its infrastructure to illicitly mine cryptocurrency. Such kind of attacks was reported at least since the end of 2020, when some software developers reported the malicious activity […]

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“gitgub” malware campaign targets Github users with RisePro info-stealer

A new Repojacking attack exposed over 4,000 GitHub repositories to hack

GitHub flaw could have allowed attackers to takeover repositories of other users

GitHub: Nearly 100,000 NPM Users’ credentials stolen in the April OAuth token attack

Stolen OAuth tokens used to download data from dozens of organizations, GitHub warns

Dependency Review GitHub Action prevents adding known flaws in the code

GitHub addressed two major vulnerabilities in the NPM package manager

Google open-sourced Allstar tool to secure GitHub repositories

GitHub paid out over $500K through its bug bounty program for 203 flaws in 2020

Attackers are abusing GitHub infrastructure to mine cryptocurrency

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