Tag: github
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RubyGems maintainer quits after Ruby Central takes control of project
Long-time contributor Ellen Dash steps down after GitHub access shake-up and governance dispute First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/09/22/ruby_central_rubygems/
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GitHub tightens npm security with mandatory 2FA, access tokens
GitHub is introducing a set of defenses against supply-chain attacks on the platform that led to multiple large-scale incidents recently. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-tightens-npm-security-with-mandatory-2fa-access-tokens/
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GitHub Mandates 2FA and Short-Lived Tokens to Strengthen npm Supply Chain Security
GitHub on Monday announced that it will be changing its authentication and publishing options “in the near future” in response to a recent wave of supply chain attacks targeting the npm ecosystem, including the Shai-Hulud attack.This includes steps to address threats posed by token abuse and self-replicating malware by allowing local publishing with required two-factor…
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GitHub Introduces npm Security with Stronger Authentication and Trusted Publishing
Open source software powers much of today’s technology, enabling developers around the world to build and share tools, libraries, and applications. However, the same openness that drives innovation also presents serious security challenges. Attackers regularly target package registries like npm to compromise accounts and inject malicious code. In response, GitHub has announced significant updates to…
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TDL 005 – A Defender’s Journey: From Passion Project to Protecting Children Online
Tags: access, business, control, corporate, country, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, defense, dns, encryption, endpoint, finance, github, government, group, guide, identity, Internet, jobs, microsoft, network, open-source, privacy, risk, service, technology, tool, zero-trustSummary A Defender’s Journey: From Passion Project to Protecting Children Online In a recent episode of “The Defender’s Log,” host David Redekop sat down with cybersecurity expert Will Earp to discuss his unconventional path into the industry and his current mission-driven career. Earp, a self-proclaimed “tinkerer” from a young age, shared how his early fascination…
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Attackers Use Phony GitHub Pages to Deliver Mac Malware
Threat actors are using a large-scale SEO poisoning campaign and fake GitHub repositories to deliver Atomic infostealers to Mac users. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/attackers-phony-github-pages-mac-malware
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LastPass: Fake password managers infect Mac users with malware
LastPass is warning users of a campaign that targets macOS users with malicious software impersonating popular products delivered through fraudulent GitHub repositories. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lastpass-fake-password-managers-infect-mac-users-with-malware/
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Malicious GitHub pages lure MacOS users into installing Atomic infostealer
MacOS users looking to download popular software such as LastPass, 1Password, After Effects, Gemini, and many others are in danger of getting saddled with the Atomic … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/09/22/macos-infostealer-campaign-github/
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Beware: GitHub repos distributing Atomic Infostealer on macOS
LastPass warns macOS users of fake GitHub repos distributing Atomic infostealer malware disguised as legitimate tools. LastPass warns macOS users about fake GitHub repositories spreading malware disguised as legitimate tools, redirecting victims to download the Atomic macOS infostealer. >>The LastPass Threat Intelligence, Mitigation, and Escalation (TIME) team is tracking an ongoing, widespread infostealer campaign targeting…
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Hackers Abuse GitHub Pages to Spread Stealer Malware to macOS Users
A sophisticated malware campaign is targeting Mac users through fraudulent GitHub repositories that masquerade as legitimate software downloads, with threat actors exploiting search engine optimization tactics to deliver malicious links directly to unsuspecting victims. The LastPass Threat Intelligence, Mitigation, and Escalation team has identified an ongoing widespread infostealer operation that specifically targets macOS users through…
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Hackers Abuse GitHub Pages to Spread Stealer Malware to macOS Users
A sophisticated malware campaign is targeting Mac users through fraudulent GitHub repositories that masquerade as legitimate software downloads, with threat actors exploiting search engine optimization tactics to deliver malicious links directly to unsuspecting victims. The LastPass Threat Intelligence, Mitigation, and Escalation team has identified an ongoing widespread infostealer operation that specifically targets macOS users through…
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LastPass Warns of Fake Repositories Infecting macOS with Atomic Infostealer
LastPass is warning of an ongoing, widespread information stealer campaign targeting Apple macOS users through fake GitHub repositories that distribute malware-laced programs masquerading as legitimate tools.”In the case of LastPass, the fraudulent repositories redirected potential victims to a repository that downloads the Atomic infostealer malware,” researchers Alex Cox, Mike Kosak, and First seen on thehackernews.com…
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ShinyHunters Counts 1.5 Billion Stolen Salesforce Records
Group Reportedly Scanned Salesloft’s Source Code on GitHub, Recovered OAuth Tokens. The ShinyHunters extortionists behind data-grabbing August attacks on Salesloft Drift users claim to have stolen 1.5 billion Salesforce records from 760 companies after breaching Salesloft’s private Git repository and scanning it for secrets, which led to them recovering working OAuth tokens. First seen on…
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Shai Hulud Burrows Into NPM Repository
JavaScript Repository Contends With Wormable Malicious Code. An apparent Dune aficionado is responsible for the first self-propagating attack on the npm JavaScript repository in what one security company has called one of the most severe JavaScript supply-chain attacks so far. A malicious script exfiltrated data to GitHub repositories named Shai-Hulud. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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The Industry’s Passkey Pivot Ignores a Deeper Threat: Device-Level Infections
Passkeys Are Progress, But They’re Not Protection Against Everything The cybersecurity community is embracing passkeys as a long-overdue replacement for passwords. These cryptographic credentials, bound to a user’s device, eliminate phishing and prevent credential reuse. Major players, like Google, Apple, Microsoft, GitHub, and Okta, have made passkey login widely available across consumer and enterprise services….…
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JFrog stellt erstes Agentic Repository vor Neuer Meilenstein für KI-native Softwareentwicklung
JFrog Fly arbeitet mit bestehenden KI-Repositorys und Plattformen wie Cursor, GitHub Copilot und Claude Code zusammen. Dank der MCP-Standards (Model Context Protocol) wird sichergestellt, dass KI-Agenten über verschiedene Systeme hinweg konsistent agieren. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/jfrog-stellt-erstes-agentic-repository-vor-neuer-meilenstein-fuer-ki-native-softwareentwicklung/a42041/
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PureHVNC RAT Developers Exploit GitHub to Spread Pure Malware Source Code
The developers behind the PureHVNC remote access trojan (RAT) have been uncovered using GitHub repositories to host critical components and plugin source code for their Pure malware family. Check Point Research’s recent forensic analysis of an eight-day ClickFix intrusion campaign reveals that PureHVNC’s command-and-control (C&C) server delivered GitHub URLs to infected machines, a practice previously…
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Warning: Hackers have inserted credential-stealing code into some npm libraries
Tags: api, attack, authentication, ciso, cloud, credentials, github, google, hacker, Hardware, incident response, malware, mfa, monitoring, open-source, phishing, sans, software, supply-chain, threatMore than 40 packages affected: One of the researchers who found and flagged the hack Monday was French developer François Best, and it was also described in blogs from StepSecurity, Socket, ReversingLabs and Ox Security. These blogs contain a full list of compromised packages and indicators of compromise.Researchers at Israel-based Ox Security said there was a…
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Shai-Hulud: A Persistent Secret Leaking Campaign
On September 15, a new supply chain attack was identified that targeted the @ctrl/tinycolor and 150 other NPM packages. The attack scenario was similar to the one used in the s1ngularity and GhostActions campaigns. The threat actors combined a local environment secrets extraction with a malicious GitHub actions workflow First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to…
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Threat Actors and Code Assistants: The Hidden Risks of Backdoor Injections
AI code assistants integrated into IDEs, like GitHub Copilot, offer powerful chat, auto-completion, and test-generation features. However, threat actors and careless users can exploit these capabilities to inject backdoors, leak sensitive data, and produce harmful code. Indirect prompt injection attacks exploit context-attachment features by contaminating public data sources with hidden instructions. When unsuspecting developers feed…
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GitHub adds post-quantum protection for SSH access
GitHub is adding post-quantum cryptography to secure SSH connections, a move that signals the company’s preparation for a time when current encryption may no longer be safe. … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/09/16/github-post-quantum-ssh-access/
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HiddenGh0st, Winos and kkRAT Exploit SEO, GitHub Pages in Chinese Malware Attacks
Chinese-speaking users are the target of a search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning campaign that uses fake software sites to distribute malware.”The attackers manipulated search rankings with SEO plugins and registered lookalike domains that closely mimicked legitimate software sites,” Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Pei Han Liao said. “By using convincing language and small character First seen…
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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 62
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter npm debug and chalk packages compromised GPUGate Malware: Malicious GitHub Desktop Implants Use Hardware-Specific Decryption, Abuse Google Ads to Target Western Europe Trojanized ScreenConnect installers evolve, dropping multiple RATs on a single machine Salt…
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Week in review: Salesloft Drift breach investigation results, malicious GitHub Desktop installers
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Salesloft Drift data breach: Investigation reveals how attackers got in The … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/09/14/week-in-review-salesloft-drift-breach-investigation-results-malicious-github-desktop-installers/
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How Wesco cut through the noise and reimagined risk management
Tags: ai, application-security, automation, awareness, business, conference, container, control, data, defense, detection, exploit, github, intelligence, kubernetes, microsoft, mitigation, risk, risk-management, software, strategy, threat, tool, vulnerability, zero-dayProactive defense: Real-time threat intelligence feeds allow Wesco to spot and neutralize vulnerabilities before they escalate.Improved awareness: Developers and security teams have clearer visibility into zero-day threats and can act faster.Application security posture enhancement: A “security champions program” ensures accountability doesn’t sit only with the security team but across development and executive teams, too.AI-driven risk…
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New Malvertising Campaign Exploits GitHub Repositories to Distribute Malware
A sophisticated malvertising campaign has been uncovered targeting unsuspecting users through “dangling commits” in a legitimate GitHub repository. Attackers are injecting promotional content for a counterfeit GitHub Desktop installer into popular development and open-source projects. When users download what appears to be the genuine client, the installer quietly delivers malicious payloads in the background, compromising…
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kkRAT Exploits Network Protocols to Exfiltrate Clipboard Data
The threat actor delivers three Remote Access Trojans (RATs)”, ValleyRAT, FatalRAT, and a newly discovered RAT dubbed kkRAT”, via phishing sites hosted on GitHub Pages. These sites masquerade as legitimate software installers for popular applications. In each instance, a ZIP archive contains a malicious executable that initiates a multi-stage attack chain designed to evade analysis,…
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UNC6395 Hackers Accessed Systems via a GitHub Account, Salesloft Says
Security investigators from Google said UNC6395 hackers spent several months running through Salesloft and Drift systems before launching a data breach campaign that some security researchers say has targeted hundreds of technology and other companies. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/09/unc6395-hackers-accessed-systems-via-a-github-account-salesloft-says/
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GitHub Breach Exposed 700+ Companies in Months-Long Attack
Cybersecurity investigators say a massive supply-chain attack affecting over 700 companies began with a seemingly minor GitHub breach earlier this year. Salesloft first disclosed a security issue in the Drift application on Aug. 21, then shared more details about malicious OAuth token abuse five days later. According to an investigation by Mandiant, which is aiding…