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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…

3 years ago

New alleged MuddyWater attack downloads a PowerShell script from GitHub

Security expert spotted a new piece of malware that leverages weaponized Word documents to download a PowerShell script from GitHub. Security…

3 years ago

Octopus Scanner Malware: open source supply chain attack via NetBeans projects on GitHub

GitHub has issued a security alert warning of a malware campaign that is spreading on its platform via boobytrapped NetBeans…

4 years ago

Microsoft investigates claims that its GitHub account has been hacked

Microsoft confirmed that it is investigating claims that its GitHub account has been hacked after some of its files were…

4 years ago

GitHub introduces new tools and security features to secure code

GitHub announced the introduction of several new tools and security features to help developers secure their code. The popular code…

5 years ago

Crooks abuse GitHub platform to host phishing kits

Experts at Proofpoint discovered that free code repositories on GitHub have been abused since at least 2017 to host phishing…

5 years ago

SLUB Backdoor leverages GitHub and Slack in targeted attacks

Malware researchers from Trend Micro have spotted a new piece of malware dubbed SLUB that leverages GitHub and Slack for…

5 years ago

GitHub started warning users when adopting compromised credentials

In order to improve the security of its users, the popular software code hosting service GitHub is now alerting account…

6 years ago

Code hosting service GitHub can now scan also for vulnerable Python code

The code hosting service GitHub added Python to the list of programming languages that it is able to auto-scan for…

6 years ago

Updated: Microsoft reportedly acquires the GitHub popular code repository hosting service

Microsoft has reportedly acquired the popular code repository hosting service GitHub, but at the time of writing there is no…

6 years ago

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