Hackers are breaching GitHub accounts and inserting malicious code disguised as Dependabot contributions to steal authentication secrets and passwords from developers.

Analysis of more than one million code commits on Github found that less than 5% of contributions are made by women.

GitHub projects have been targeted with malicious commits and pull requests, in an attempt to inject backdoors into these projects. Most recently, the GitHub repository of Exo Labs, an AI and ...

While GitHub offers security features like two-factor authentication and alerts for vulnerable dependencies, public repositories can expose code to anyone, potentially even malicious actors.