Tag: github
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Over 543,000 valid credentials exposed in public GitHub repositories
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. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-543-000-valid-credentials-exposed-in-public-github-repositories/
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AI coding agents leaked 13,000 internal company screenshots to public GitHub repos
When developers ask AI coding agents to prove that a user interface fix works, some agents have been posting the evidence where anyone can find it, according to Glow Labs. … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/30/ai-coding-agents-github-screenshot-leak/
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AI Coding Agents Exposed 13,000 Internal Images, Including Billing Records, on GitHub
AI coding agents asked to share screenshots of code changes for review have put internal company images in public GitHub repositories, security company Glow said.Its researchers found more than 13,000 internal images from developers at over 300 organizations, including customer billing records and screens of features not yet released. In most cases, they sat under…
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OpenAI Launches Codex Security Cloud for Always-On Application Security Scanning
OpenAI has expanded its Codex platform with Codex Security Cloud, a cloud-hosted application security feature that continuously analyzes GitHub repositories, investigates potential vulnerabilities, and prepares remediation patches for human review. Announced as part of the company’s latest Codex updates, this service is designed to operate security workflows beyond a developer’s local machine. It can run…
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GitHub AI Agent Uncovers 24 Android App Vulnerabilities
GitHub Security Lab has disclosed 24 vulnerabilities in Android applications discovered through its open-source AI security agent and specialized audit taskflows. The findings highlight issues that could enable covert location tracking in the OsmAnd navigation app and account takeover attacks against Wikipedia users on Android. Kevin Stubbings, a researcher at GitHub Security Lab, developed targeted…
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GitHub’s AI agent found 24 Android app vulnerabilities
GitHub Security Lab researcher Kevin Stubbings built custom AI-driven audit workflows, called taskflows, on top of the lab’s open source Taskflow Agent, and used them to … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/29/github-ai-android-app-vulnerabilities/
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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 116
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter Threat Intel – One Kit, Forty Companies: How a Malware-as-a-Service Platform Used GitHub as a Distribution Network for its Campaign Group Policy hijacked: PAYLOAD ransomware weaponizes Active Directory GPO ChainScript: Tracing a Node.js RAT…
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Placeholder Domains Used by 349 AI Agent Skills Found Redirecting to Scams
Manifold Security found placeholder domains cited in 359,000 GitHub files and 349 AI agent skills serving cloaked scam… First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/placeholder-domains-ai-agent-skills-redirect-scams/
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Placeholder Domains Used by 349 AI Agent Skills Found Redirecting to Scams
Manifold Security found placeholder domains cited in 359,000 GitHub files and 349 AI agent skills serving cloaked scam… First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/placeholder-domains-ai-agent-skills-redirect-scams/
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GitHub Actions re-enabled with Mini Shai-Hulud payload still active
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. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-actions-re-enabled-with-mini-shai-hulud-payload-still-active/
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Compromised GitHub Actions Came Back Online and Resumed Executing Mini Shai-Hulud Malware
Two actions-cool GitHub Actions have been disabled for a second time after the repositories became accessible last week, months after they were compromised during the May 2026 Mini Shai-Hulud campaign.The affected GitHub Actions are listed below – actions-cool/issues-helper actions-cool/maintain-one-commentVisiting either of the repositories now shows the message: “Access to this First seen on thehackernews.com Jump…
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Shai-Hulud Attack Nips Cyber-Firm CrowdSec’s GitHub Data
Threat actors stole 170 private repositories using an OAuth token stolen from a former employee’s computer through the TanStack npm supply chain attack. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/shai-hulud-attack-cyber-firm-crowdsec-github-data
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Researcher Drops BigDiskBuster Zero-Day PoC That Blocks Microsoft Defender Updates
A zero-day proof-of-concept tool that stops Microsoft Defender from installing platform and signature updates by filling all available disk space was published on GitHub on September 19.The tool, called BigDiskBuster, has no patch, no CVE, and no Microsoft advisory. Its author, Abdelhamid Naceri, is a former Microsoft security researcher whose earlier Defender exploits were used…
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Hackers Compromise 65 GitHub Repositories and Poison npm Package With Hidden Backdoor
Threat actors have compromised at least 65 public GitHub repositories in a software supply-chain campaign that abused npm trusted publishing to distribute a stealthy backdoor through a legitimate package. The malicious package was identified as @dforge-core/dforge-mcp, an MCP-related npm package whose maintainer account was abused for roughly 105 minutes on September 9. Attackers initially pushed…
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AWS Detects and Quarantines Exposed IAM Credentials in Public GitHub Repositories
AWS can automatically quarantine exposed Identity and Access Management (IAM) access keys that appear in public GitHub repositories. This process involves applying a restrictive managed policy within seconds to reduce the risk of cloud abuse. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 documented this response mechanism, showing that AWS employs the AWSCompromisedKeyQuarantine managed policy to…
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Fake LastPass Authenticator Installer Abuses Microsoft-Signed Driver to Kill Antivirus and EDR
A fake LastPass Authenticator installer offered on GitHub installs a Windows kernel driver that shuts off antivirus and other security software before a password stealer runs if a victim downloads and runs it, researchers at LastPass and Delphos Labs said on September 17.Microsoft’s own hardware-compatibility program signs the driver, scored zero detections on VirusTotal when…
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Malicious HEIF Upload Reached OpenAI’s Internal GitHub, Researchers Reveal
A malicious HEIF upload exploited Discourse, crossed OpenAI’s identity layer, and reached an internal GitHub repo through a connected Codex account. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/news/news-openai-heif-github-vulnerability/
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BigDiskBuster Windows Defender DoS Vulnerability Blocks Platform and Signature Updates
A recently published proof-of-concept project named BigDiskBuster claims to prevent Microsoft Defender from completing its platform and security intelligence signature updates. This could create a potential denial-of-service condition, leaving Windows endpoints operating with outdated anti-malware protection. The project, published on GitHub by the user “MSNightmare,” is described as a >>Windows Defender Update Denial of Service…
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BigDiskBuster Windows Defender DoS Vulnerability Blocks Platform and Signature Updates
A recently published proof-of-concept project named BigDiskBuster claims to prevent Microsoft Defender from completing its platform and security intelligence signature updates. This could create a potential denial-of-service condition, leaving Windows endpoints operating with outdated anti-malware protection. The project, published on GitHub by the user “MSNightmare,” is described as a >>Windows Defender Update Denial of Service…
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BigDiskBuster Windows Defender DoS Vulnerability Blocks Platform and Signature Updates
A recently published proof-of-concept project named BigDiskBuster claims to prevent Microsoft Defender from completing its platform and security intelligence signature updates. This could create a potential denial-of-service condition, leaving Windows endpoints operating with outdated anti-malware protection. The project, published on GitHub by the user “MSNightmare,” is described as a >>Windows Defender Update Denial of Service…
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BigDiskBuster Windows Defender DoS Vulnerability Blocks Platform and Signature Updates
A recently published proof-of-concept project named BigDiskBuster claims to prevent Microsoft Defender from completing its platform and security intelligence signature updates. This could create a potential denial-of-service condition, leaving Windows endpoints operating with outdated anti-malware protection. The project, published on GitHub by the user “MSNightmare,” is described as a >>Windows Defender Update Denial of Service…
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BigDiskBuster Windows Defender DoS Vulnerability Blocks Platform and Signature Updates
A recently published proof-of-concept project named BigDiskBuster claims to prevent Microsoft Defender from completing its platform and security intelligence signature updates. This could create a potential denial-of-service condition, leaving Windows endpoints operating with outdated anti-malware protection. The project, published on GitHub by the user “MSNightmare,” is described as a >>Windows Defender Update Denial of Service…
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BigDiskBuster Windows Defender DoS Vulnerability Blocks Platform and Signature Updates
A recently published proof-of-concept project named BigDiskBuster claims to prevent Microsoft Defender from completing its platform and security intelligence signature updates. This could create a potential denial-of-service condition, leaving Windows endpoints operating with outdated anti-malware protection. The project, published on GitHub by the user “MSNightmare,” is described as a >>Windows Defender Update Denial of Service…
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HEIF Heist Image Flaws Let Attackers Gain RCE Across Meta, Slack and GitHub Enterprise
Tags: attack, cyber, data, flaw, github, malicious, rce, remote-code-execution, supply-chain, technology, threat“HEIF Heist,” a broad class of image-processing attack paths that could allow threat actors to turn malicious HEIF, HEIC, and AVIF uploads into remote code execution, sensitive-data exposure, and account compromise across major technology and enterprise platforms. The research, published by Hacktron, highlights a familiar but increasingly dangerous supply-chain weakness: applications often trust native image-decoding…
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Hackers Exploit TanStack Supply Chain Attack to Steal 170 Private CrowdSec Repositories
Threat actors linked to the TanStack npm supply chain compromise allegedly used a stolen GitHub OAuth token to clone about 170 private CrowdSec repositories, exposing source code, limited contact information, and a restricted AWS notification credential. CrowdSec stated that the compromise originated from a former employee’s account, which remained in the company’s GitHub organization for…
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Hackers Exploit TanStack Supply Chain Attack to Steal 170 Private CrowdSec Repositories
Threat actors linked to the TanStack npm supply chain compromise allegedly used a stolen GitHub OAuth token to clone about 170 private CrowdSec repositories, exposing source code, limited contact information, and a restricted AWS notification credential. CrowdSec stated that the compromise originated from a former employee’s account, which remained in the company’s GitHub organization for…
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Hackers Exploit TanStack Supply Chain Attack to Steal 170 Private CrowdSec Repositories
Threat actors linked to the TanStack npm supply chain compromise allegedly used a stolen GitHub OAuth token to clone about 170 private CrowdSec repositories, exposing source code, limited contact information, and a restricted AWS notification credential. CrowdSec stated that the compromise originated from a former employee’s account, which remained in the company’s GitHub organization for…
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CrowdSec Says TanStack npm Attack Led to Copy of 170 Private GitHub Repositories
An attacker copied about 170 of CrowdSec’s private GitHub repositories on May 22 using the account of an employee who had just left, CrowdSec said on September 18.The French security company had kept his GitHub access open. CrowdSec says his laptop was compromised in May’s supply chain attack on TanStack, in which malicious versions of…
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Transparent Tribe Deploys New Rust Backdoor Using Private GitHub Repositories for C2
The Pakistan-aligned threat group tracked as Transparent Tribe (aka APT36 and Earth Karkaddan) has been attributed to a fresh set of cyber attacks targeting government and defense entities in India and Afghanistan.The attacks, per Zscaler ThreatLabz, involve the use of previously undocumented tools called RUSTYSHADE, RUSTYMOVE, PSNATCH, and BASHNATCH. The activity has been codenamed Operation…
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Fake LastPass Authenticator GitHub repos push new Rapuncel infostealer
An ongoing malware campaign uses SEO-optimized GitHub repositories to impersonate well-known software firms to push a previously undocumented information stealer called Rapuncel. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-lastpass-authenticator-github-repos-push-new-rapuncel-infostealer/