The GitHub Actions Attack Pattern Your CI Security Scanners Miss

ActiveState explains how GitHub Actions attack chains can evade traditional CI security scanners, why passing a scan doesn't ...
Bleeping Computer

GitHub now scans for accidentally-exposed PyPI, RubyGems secrets

GitHub has recently expanded its secrets scanning capabilities to repositories containing PyPI and RubyGems registry secrets. The move helps protect millions of applications built by Ruby and Python ...
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 ...
CSOonline

GhostAction campaign steals 3325 secrets in GitHub supply chain attack

GitGuardian has disclosed a new software supply chain attack campaign, dubbed GhostAction, that exfiltrated thousands of sensitive credentials before being detected and contained on September 5. The ...
InfoWorld

GitHub Action Secrets aren’t secret anymore: exposed PATs now a direct path into cloud environments

Many enterprises use GitHub Action Secrets to store and protect sensitive information such as credentials, API keys, and tokens used in CI/CD workflows. These private repositories are widely assumed ...
Ars Technica

Large enterprises scramble after supply-chain attack spills their secrets

Open source software used by more than 23,000 organizations, some of them in large enterprises, was compromised with credential-stealing code after attackers gained unauthorized access to a maintainer ...
CSOonline

GitHub Actions abused by Megalodon attack to slip malicious commits into 5,500 repos

Researchers say the campaign abused compromised access tokens and deploy keys to inject malicious GitHub Actions workflows into thousands of public repositories. A large-scale automated GitHub ...
InfoWorld

GitHub suffers a cascading supply chain attack compromising CI/CD secrets

A sophisticated cascading supply chain attack has compromised multiple GitHub Actions, exposing critical CI/CD secrets across tens of thousands of repositories. The ...