Attackers can inject indirect prompts in normal-looking repositories to trick Claude Code into spawning a reverse shell.

Somewhere inside GitHub, a developer installed a Visual Studio Code extension. It looked like any other productivity plugin in Microsoft’s marketplace. It wasn’t. That single installation gave ...

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 cryptocurrency ...

A hacker going by the handle "Pl0xP" cloned a large number of GitHub repositories and slightly changed the cloned repository names, in a typosquatting effort to impersonate legitimate projects — thus ...

Okta, a leading provider of authentication services and Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions, says that its private GitHub repositories were hacked this month. According to a 'confidential' ...

“It is important to keep in mind that courts have found that the mere intent to keep the document confidential is insufficient.” Recently, I met with a potential client to discuss key points that ...

The attacks started earlier today, appear to be coordinated across Git hosting services (GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab), and it is still unclear how they are happening. What it is known is that the hacker ...

Open-source repositories are collapsing under the strain of 10 trillion downloads annually. All the major repositories are joining together to tackle this problem. While a lack of funds is a major ...

Slack suffered a security incident over the holidays affecting some of its private GitHub code repositories. The immensely popular Salesforce-owned IM app is used by an estimated 18 million users at ...

A massive phishing campaign targeting GitHub users convinced at least one developer at Dropbox to enter in their credentials and a two-factor authentication code, leading to the theft of at least 130 ...

Monorepos, or monolithic repositories, refer to a software development strategy where code for many projects is stored in a single repository. This approach contrasts with having multiple repositories ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. GitHub confirms 3,800 repositories breached. GitHub, the cloud-based hosting service used by ...