A scan of billions of files from 13 percent of all GitHub public repositories over a period of six months has revealed that over 100,000 repos have leaked API tokens and cryptographic keys, with ...

Shai-Hulud is the third major supply chain attack targeting the NPM ecosystem after the s1ngularity attack and the recent ...

Hackers used the secrets stolen in the recent Nx supply chain attack to publish over 6,700 private repositories publicly.

The novel malware strain is being dubbed Shai-Hulud — after the name for the giant sandworms in Frank Herbert’s Dune novel ...

GitHub is rolling out support for the free scanning of exposed secrets (such as credentials and auth tokens) to all public repositories on its code hosting platform. Secret scanning is a security ...

GitHub announced updates to its Advanced Security platform after it detected over 39 million leaked secrets in repositories during 2024, including API keys and credentials, exposing users and ...

Exposing hard-coded credentials and sensitive secrets through public code repositories has been a major security risk for organizations for years, with over 10 million new instances of credential ...

Facepalm: GitHub serves as a colossal hub for software development, hosting nearly half a billion code projects created by hundreds of millions of developers worldwide. Given its extensive reach and ...

Security researchers have discovered a new flaw in GitHub which they say could have enabled attackers to take control of repositories and spread malware to related apps and code. Although GitHub has ...