GitHub disables Microsoft repos pushing password-stealing malware

Microsoft removed 73 repositories across its Azure, microsoft, Azure-Samples, and MicrosoftDocs organizations on GitHub, ...
Bleeping Computer

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension

Update May 21: GitHub has now linked this breach to the TanStack npm supply-chain attack and says the employee installed a malicious version of the Nx Console extension. GitHub has confirmed that ...
VentureBeat

GitHub confirms 3,800 internal repos stolen through poisoned VS Code extension as supply chain worm hits Microsoft’s Python SDK

GitHub confirmed on May 20 that a poisoned VS Code extension installed on an employee’s device gave attackers access to roughly 3,800 internal repositories at the Microsoft-owned code storage and ...

Microsoft disables over 70 GitHub repos after hackers compromised them with dangerous malware

Someone forgot to change compromised credentials ...
Forbes

GitHub Says 3,800 Repositories Breached—TeamPCP Hackers Demand $50,000

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 ...
Geeky Gadgets

Why your private GitHub repos may not be as secure as you think

Private and deleted GitHub repositories are not as secure as users might assume. Data from deleted forks, deleted repositories, and private repositories can still be accessed, often indefinitely. This ...
Dark Reading

Millions of Malicious Repositories Flood GitHub

Cyberattackers in just the last few months have registered more than 100,000 — but by some estimates more than a million — malicious copycat repositories on GitHub. The "repo confusion" scheme is ...
Dark Reading

Millions of Repos on GitHub Are Potentially Vulnerable to Hijacking

Millions of enterprise software repositories on GitHub are vulnerable to repojacking, a relatively simple kind of software supply chain attack where a threat actor redirects projects that are ...