Tag: github
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Hackers Exploit Visual Studio Code to Deploy Malicious Payloads on Victim Systems
The attack arsenal by extensively abusing Microsoft Visual Studio Code configuration files to deliver and execute malicious payloads on compromised systems. This evolution in the Contagious Interview campaign represents a sophisticated shift toward weaponizing legitimate developer tools. The infection chain begins when victims clone and open malicious Git repositories hosted on GitHub or GitLab, typically…
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AWS Console Supply Chain Flaw Could Have Enabled GitHub Repo Hijacks
Wiz says an AWS CodeBuild flaw could have enabled GitHub repo hijacks, though AWS reports no impact. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/aws-console-supply-chain-flaw-could-have-enabled-github-repo-hijacks/
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AWS Console Supply Chain Breach Enables GitHub Repository Hijacking
Tags: attack, breach, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, github, malicious, open-source, service, supply-chain, threatA newly reported supply chain attack targeting the Amazon Web Services (AWS) management console has raised alarms across the developer community. Cybersecurity researchers have discovered that threat actors are exploiting misconfigured AWS credentials and integrated GitHub actions tohijack repositoriesand inject malicious code into open-source projects. According to the security firm that uncovered the incident, attackersexploitcompromised…
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Possible software supply chain attack through AWS CodeBuild service blunted
Developers shouldn’t expose build environments: CSOs should ensure developers don’t expose build environments, Meghu said. “Using public hosted services like GitHub is not appropriate for enterprise code management and deployment,” he added. “Having a private GitLab/GitHub, service, or even your own git repository server, should be the default for business, making this attack impossible if…
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AWS CodeBuild Misconfiguration Exposed GitHub Repos to Potential Supply Chain Attacks
A critical misconfiguration in Amazon Web Services (AWS) CodeBuild could have allowed complete takeover of the cloud service provider’s own GitHub repositories, including its AWS JavaScript SDK, putting every AWS environment at risk.The vulnerability has been codenamed CodeBreach by cloud security company Wiz. The issue was fixed by AWS in September 2025 following responsible disclosure…
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From typos to takeovers: Inside the industrialization of npm supply chain attacks
Tags: access, application-security, attack, automation, backdoor, blockchain, breach, control, credentials, cybersecurity, github, gitlab, malicious, malware, phishing, radius, risk, supply-chain, threat, update, wormFrom typo traps to legitimate backdoors: For years, typosquatting defined the npm threat model. Attackers published packages with names just close enough to popular libraries, such as “lodsash,” “expres,” “reacts,” and waited for automation or human error to do the rest. The impact was usually limited, and remediation straightforward.That model began to break in 2025.Instead…
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InvisibleJS: Executable ES Modules Hidden in Plain Sight with Zero-Width Characters
A new experimental tool called InvisibleJS has emerged on GitHub, demonstrating how JavaScript source code can be completely hidden from human view while remaining fully executable. Created by developer oscarmine, this proof-of-concept obfuscation technique leverages zero-width Unicode characters to encode executable payloads that appear as blank files to the naked eye. How InvisibleJS Works InvisibleJS employs steganographic…
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Shai-Hulud & Co.: Die Supply Chain als Achillesferse
Tags: access, ai, application-security, backdoor, ciso, cloud, cyber, cyberattack, data, github, Hardware, infrastructure, kritis, kubernetes, LLM, monitoring, network, nis-2, programming, resilience, risk, rust, sbom, software, spyware, strategy, supply-chain, tool, vulnerabilityEgal, ob React2Shell, Shai-Hulud oder XZ Utils: Die Sicherheit der Software-Supply-Chain wird durch zahlreiche Risiken gefährdet.Heutige Anwendungen basieren auf zahlreichen Komponenten, von denen jede zusammen mit den Entwicklungsumgebungen selbst eine Angriffsfläche darstellt. Unabhängig davon, ob Unternehmen Code intern entwickeln oder sich auf Drittanbieter verlassen, sollten CISOs, Sicherheitsexperten und Entwickler der Software-Supply-Chain besondere Aufmerksamkeit schenken.Zu den…
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Securing MCP Servers at Scale: How to Govern AI Agents with an Enterprise Identity Fabric
Here’s a scenario you’ve probably seen: A developer downloads a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server from GitHub, runs it locally, connects it to their chat client or agent workflow, authorizes with a Personal Access Token (PAT) that grants excessive permissions, and starts using it. It works great. Then another developer does the same thing. And……
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Trust Wallet Chrome Extension Hack Drains $8.5M via Shai-Hulud Supply Chain Attack
Trust Wallet on Tuesday revealed that the second iteration of the Shai-Hulud (aka Sha1-Hulud) supply chain outbreak in November 2025 was likely responsible for the hack of its Google Chrome extension, ultimately resulting in the theft of approximately $8.5 million in assets.”Our Developer GitHub secrets were exposed in the attack, which gave the attacker access…
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Top 5 real-world AI security threats revealed in 2025
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, chatgpt, cloud, control, credentials, cybercrime, data, data-breach, defense, email, exploit, flaw, framework, github, gitlab, google, injection, least-privilege, LLM, malicious, malware, microsoft, nvidia, open-source, openai, rce, remote-code-execution, risk, service, software, supply-chain, theft, threat, tool, vulnerabilityA critical remote code execution (RCE) in open-source AI agent framework Langflow that was also exploited in the wildAn RCE flaw in OpenAI’s Codex CLIVulnerabilities in NVIDIA Triton Inference ServerRCE vulnerabilities in major AI inference server frameworks, including those from Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, and open-source projects such as vLLM and SGLangVulnerabilities in open-source compute framework…
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Webrat turns GitHub PoCs into a malware trap
The malicious payload and behavior: Beneath the polished README, the attackers dumped a password-protected ZIP linked in the repository. The archive password was hidden in file names, something easily missable by unsuspecting eyes. Inside, the key components include a decoy DLL, a batch file to launch the malware, and the primary executable (like rasmanesc.exe) capable…
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WebRAT malware spread via fake vulnerability exploits on GitHub
The WebRAT malware is now being distributed through GitHub repositories that claim to host proof-of-concept exploits for recently disclosed vulnerabilities. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/webrat-malware-spread-via-fake-vulnerability-exploits-on-github/
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WhatsApp API worked exactly as promised, and stole everything
Tags: access, api, attack, backdoor, encryption, endpoint, github, malicious, malware, metric, monitoring, supply-chain, threat, tool, updateBackdoor sticks around even after package removal: Koi said the most significant component of the attack was its persistence. WhatsApp allows users to link multiple devices to a single account through a pairing process involving an 8-character code. The malicious lotusbail package hijacked this mechanism by embedding a hardcoded pairing code that effectively added the…
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Scammers use AI to make fake art seem real
Human-in-the-loop isn’t enough: New attack turns AI safeguards into exploitsAI startups leak sensitive credentials on GitHub, exposing models and training dataAI hallucinations lead to a new cyber threat: Slopsquatting First seen on csoonline.com Jump to article: www.csoonline.com/article/4110618/scammers-use-ai-to-make-fake-art-seem-real.html
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AI-Generated Code Ships Faster, But Crashes Harder
Machine-Written Pull Requests Contain 70% More Bugs. CodeRabbit analyzed 470 GitHub pull requests and found AI-generated code introduces more defects than human-written code across logic, security, maintainability and performance categories, with severity spiking higher as well. The use of AI code generation has expanded across the industry. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/ai-generated-code-ships-faster-but-crashes-harder-a-30352
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The 12 Months of Innovation: How Salt Security Helped Rewrite API AI Security in 2025
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, automation, breach, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, crowdstrike, cyber, data, data-breach, defense, detection, email, exploit, github, governance, injection, insurance, intelligence, privacy, risk, risk-management, software, strategy, supply-chain, threat, tool, wafAs holiday lights go up and inboxes fill with year-in-review emails, it’s tempting to look back on 2025 as “the year of AI.” But for security teams, it was something more specific the year APIs, AI agents, and MCP servers collided across the API fabric, expanding the attack surface faster than most organizations could keep…
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Android Users at Risk as Malware Poses as mParivahan and e-Challan Apps
A sophisticated Android malware campaign dubbed NexusRoute is actively targeting Indian users by impersonating the Indian Government Ministry, mParivahan, and e-Challan services to steal credentials and carry out large-scale financial fraud. The operation combines phishing, malware, and surveillance capabilities. It is being distributed via malicious APKs hosted on GitHub and clusters of phishing domains that…
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GitHub Scanner for React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182) Turns Out to Be Malware
A GitHub repository posing as a vulnerability scanner for CVE-2025-55182, also referred to as “React2Shell,” was exposed as… First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/github-scanner-react2shell-cve-2025-55182-malware/
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GitHub Action Secrets aren’t secret anymore: exposed PATs now a direct path into cloud environments
Tags: access, api, authentication, awareness, cloud, credentials, data-breach, detection, exploit, github, infrastructure, malicious, mfa, monitoring, security-incident, strategy, threat, trainingEasily evading detection: Wiz found that a threat actor with basic read permissions via a PAT can use GitHub’s API code search to discover secret names embedded directly in a workflow’s yaml code, accessed via “${{ secrets.SECRET_NAME }}.”The danger is that this secret discovery method is difficult to monitor because search API calls are not…
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GitHub Action Secrets aren’t secret anymore: exposed PATs now a direct path into cloud environments
Tags: access, api, authentication, awareness, cloud, credentials, data-breach, detection, exploit, github, infrastructure, malicious, mfa, monitoring, security-incident, strategy, threat, trainingEasily evading detection: Wiz found that a threat actor with basic read permissions via a PAT can use GitHub’s API code search to discover secret names embedded directly in a workflow’s yaml code, accessed via “${{ secrets.SECRET_NAME }}.”The danger is that this secret discovery method is difficult to monitor because search API calls are not…
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GitHub Action Secrets aren’t secret anymore: exposed PATs now a direct path into cloud environments
Tags: access, api, authentication, awareness, cloud, credentials, data-breach, detection, exploit, github, infrastructure, malicious, mfa, monitoring, security-incident, strategy, threat, trainingEasily evading detection: Wiz found that a threat actor with basic read permissions via a PAT can use GitHub’s API code search to discover secret names embedded directly in a workflow’s yaml code, accessed via “${{ secrets.SECRET_NAME }}.”The danger is that this secret discovery method is difficult to monitor because search API calls are not…