A crypto-mining campaign abusing Hugging Face models returned days after takedown, hijacking GPU servers and planting backdoors, with one model downloaded over 28,000 times. Separately, a fake Solana starter kit on GitHub is positioned to trick AI coding agents into installing a NetSupport RAT. [...]
Attackers can steal credentials and begin exfiltrating data within minutes, often before security teams can respond. Exaforce examines real-world attacks involving stolen GitHub tokens, malicious AI installers, and MFA phishing, explaining why faster detection and automated containment are critical. [...]
More than 17,000 fake repositories on GitHub are distributing the SmartLoader malware after the FakeGit campaign reactivated earlier this month to push the StealC infostealer. [...]
Serial number: AV26-1007 Date: October 7, 2026 As of October 6, 2026, GitHub is affected by vulnerabilities in the following product: Enterprise Server 3.18.0 Prior to 3.18.16 3.19.0 Prior to 3.19.13 3.20.0 Prior to 3.20.9 3.21.0 Prior to 3.21.7 3.22.0 Prior to 3.22.2 The Cyber Centre encourages users and administrators to review the provided web links and apply any necessary updates as they become available. Release notes - GitHub Enterprise Server 3.18 Docs Release notes - GitHub Enterprise…
Rilasciati aggiornamenti di sicurezza per risolvere due vulnerabilità, di cui una con gravità "alta", in GitHub Enterprise Server. Un utente autenticato autorizzato a inviare contenuti a un repository potrebbe sfruttare tale vulnerabilità per indurre il sistema a inoltrare richieste opportunamente predisposte verso host interni controllati dall'attaccante al fine di eseguire codice arbitrario sul sistema interessato.
Analysis of Blinder Tunnel, an Iran-nexus campaign using fake Dubai Airports recruitment lures and GitHub C2 malware to target critical infrastructure. The post Blinder Tunnel Campaign Targets Iraqi Infrastructure appeared first on Unit 42.
More than 543,000 credentials exposed in public GitHub repositories were still valid in July despite the platform's security measures to prevent accidental leaks of sensitive data. [...]
Two third-party GitHub Actions previously compromised in a Mini Shai-Hulud campaign were re-enabled by their maintainer and remained accessible for more than a week despite still pointing to malicious code. [...]
Introduction The landscape of software supply chain security has undergone a significant shift. Recent campaigns demonstrate that sophisticated threat actors are systematically targeting the engineering lifecycle by compromising trusted security and programming tools. These intrusions reveal three key tactics: Attackers target trusted security scanners, utility libraries, and AI developer tools to exploit the elevated privileges granted to these systems within build pipelines. Adversaries…
Classification: Severe, Solution: Official Fix, Exploit Maturity: Unproven, CVSSv3.1: 9.3, CVEs: CVE-2026-77987, CVE-2026-77912, CVE-2026-75101, Summary: GitHub has corrected three vulnerabilities in GitHub Enterprise Server. The most serious is a server-side request forgery vulnerability in the notebook viewer. An attacker could use response timing to extract instance secrets and ultimately execute code on the appliance. Exploitation requires no authentication when private mode is disabled and…
Serial Number: AV26-956Date: September 23, 2026 As of September 22, 2026, GitHub is affected by vulnerabilities in the following product: Enterprise Server 3.17.0 Prior to 3.17.21 3.18.0 Prior to 3.18.15 3.19.0 Prior to 3.19.12 3.20.0 Prior to 3.20.8 3.21.0 Prior to 3.21.6 3.22.0 Prior to 3.22.1 The Cyber Centre encourages users and administrators to review the provided web links and apply any necessary updates as they become available. Release notes - GitHub Enterprise Server 3.17 Docs Release…
GitHub ha rilasciato aggiornamenti di sicurezza per risolvere 3 vulnerabilità, di cui 1 con gravità "critica" e 1 con gravità "alta", in GitHub Enterprise Server. Tali vulnerabilità, qualora sfruttate, potrebbero consentire a un utente malintenzionato di eseguire codice arbitrario, eludere i meccanismi di sicurezza e accedere a informazioni sensibili sui sistemi interessati.
We’ve heard of OpenAI’s AI agents running amok and hacking other companies. Now, a cybersecurity company has turned the tables on the ChatGPT operator by using AI to help hack OpenAI itself. The hack, which also exposed a bug affecting dozens of other major online services, was conducted as security research. OpenAI paid the researchers for reporting a flaw in its systems through its bug bounty program. Researchers at cybersecurity tools vendor Hacktron wrote up their adventures in mid…
We explore how AWS neutralizes exposed IAM credentials using managed policies, detailing GitHub secret scanning and CloudTrail monitoring strategies. The post From Exposure to Lockdown: How AWS Neutralizes Compromised IAM Credentials through Managed Policies appeared first on Unit 42.
Executive Summary Following disclosure of the TraderTraitor attack against LayerZero in April 2026, SentinelOne identified an additional victim with the same macOS backdoors. Our analysis explores the mechanics of these backdoors and the expanded targeting against a victim in the IT services sector with no relationship to cryptocurrency trading. We also identified more weaponized GitHub repositories from the social engineering schemes used to target job seekers in these campaigns. This report…
An ongoing malware campaign uses SEO-optimized GitHub repositories to impersonate well-known software firms to push a previously undocumented information stealer called Rapuncel. [...]
Improper neutralization of special elements used in a command ('command injection') in GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information over a network.
Executive Summary Since the release of our May 2026 report detailing adversarial misuse of artificial intelligence (AI), Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has observed forward leaning adversaries transition from basic prompting to agentic AI workflows and AI-enabled automation. In these operations, human-in-the-loop latency is dramatically reduced, compressing the traditional window for defenders to respond. In Q2 2026, GTIG observed threat actors compromise a cloud resource, then plan,…
Threat actors are increasingly exploiting legitimate cloud services to evade detection and streamline the deployment of their scam infrastructure. Cloud hosting services and decentralized networks have become primary platforms for hosting phishing pages and sites. Throughout 2025 and 2026, we have observed phishing operators steadily migrate toward platforms like Cloudflare Workers, Vercel, Netlify, GitHub Pages, and IPFS. This post analyzes the mechanics of a real-life adversary-in-the-middle …
Improper neutralization of special elements in output used by a downstream component ('injection') in GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature over a network.
Datadog Security Labs identified multiple coordinated campaigns abusing the GitHub API to systematically enumerate organizations, repositories, users, and software development activity at scale. The activity primarily relied on legitimate GitHub functionality, including dorman...
Break-glass credential revocation is live on GitHub Enterprise. The Trivy and Microsoft durabletask repeats show why fast, complete revocation was needed.. Category: News
A modular phishing infrastructure targeting multiple Mexican banks has been uncovered, abusing GitHub-hosted Pages, employing obfuscated scripts, and featuring a centralized credential exfiltration via SheetBest API, indicating a scalable and persistent multi-brand phishing operation.
Improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory ('path traversal') in GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature locally.
Looking for a Gitleaks alternative? We compare Betterleaks, TruffleHog, Aikido, GitHub Advanced Security, and Spectral so you can find the best secrets scanner for your team. Category: DevSec Tools & Comparisons
Researchers disclosed a large-scale software supply chain campaign dubbed “Megalodon,” in which attackers reportedly compromised thousands of GitHub repositories by injecting malicious GitHub Actions workflows designed to exfiltrate secrets and cloud credentials. The campaign ...
GitHub confirmed a poisoned VS Code extension compromised an employee device, exposing 3,800 internal repos. Why developer workstations are now the top supply chain target. Category: Vulnerabilities & Threats
According to GitHub’s public statement, the company detected unauthorized access involving internal repositories and initiated an ongoing investigation into the scope and potential impact of the incident. GitHub stated that it is closely monitoring its infrastructure for follo...
<p>A malicious VS Code extension led to cloned private repositories, reportedly offered for sale on a criminal forum</p>Categories: Threat ResearchTags: GitHub, Supply chain
When a company suffers a cyber breach, its stock price often takes a hit, but the timing, depth, and duration of that reaction are far less predictable. In this LABScon25 presentation, Mick Baccio and Scott Roberts explore whether public indicators of breach activity can be used to anticipate market response before formal disclosure. Drawing on sources such as EDGAR filings, executive blog posts, and social media chatter, the speakers examine how public breadcrumbs can reveal incident activity…
GitHub Actions misconfigurations have been behind some of the biggest supply chain attacks of 2025 and 2026. Here's what went wrong and how to prevent them from happening to your org. Category: Guides & Best Practices
Preamble In 2025 and 2026, we watched a pattern play out across the industry. Attackers stopped going after production servers directly and started targeting the automation that deploys to them. Compromised developer credentials, a modified workflow file, and suddenly every secret in a CI/CD environment is streaming to an attacker-controlled endpoint. We saw this play out across incidents involving major open-source projects, Fortune 500 companies, and critical infrastructure tooling. The…
The compromise originated from a GitHub Actions script injection vulnerability in a workflow that improperly handled untrusted input from pull request comments. An attacker exploited this flaw to execute arbitrary commands within the CI pipeline, gaining access to the reposito...
A supply chain campaign attributed to a DPRK-linked threat actor, PolinRider, has resulted in the compromise of over 1,900 GitHub repositories through malicious npm packages, VS Code artifacts, and injected JavaScript payloads. The campaign leverages stealthy code injection an...
An unknown threat actor has been conducting an opportunistic campaign of automated malicious pull requests to attempt to initiate supply chain compromise against various open source repositories. In at least two cases, the attacker has been able to inject malicious code that u...
The compromise of the xygeni-action represents a CI/CD supply chain attack in which a threat actor leveraged tag poisoning to distribute a backdoored GitHub Action at scale. The attacker first gained access to the repository via compromised maintainer credentials and a GitHub ...