GitHub investigates unauthorized access to internal repositories

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A self-replicating worm that hijacks GitHub Actions pipelines to publish malicious npm packages has struck again, compromising AntV, echarts-for-react, and Microsoft’s durabletask SDK. Mini Shai-Hulud Exploits GitHub Actions to Hit 16 Million Weekly Downloads The Mini Shai-Hulud campaign, attributed to the threat group Team PCP, does not work the way most supply chain attacks do […]

GitHub has confirmed that thousands of its internal repositories were accessed without authorization, prompting fresh warnings from Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao for crypto developers to immediately rotate API keys stored in code repositories. According to a statement published by…

This incident underscores the critical need for robust security practices in managing cloud credentials, highlighting potential supply chain vulnerabilities. The post CISA exposed plaintext passwords and cloud keys on GitHub for six months appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Faced with the growing volume of submission to its bug bounty program, GitHub is replacing cash bounties with swag rewards for reports with low security impact — and asking researchers to stop submitting reports that are low quality or about things that aren’t its fault. The cloud-based code repository platform has seen a sharp increase in submissions that don’t demonstrate real security impact over the past year due to newer tools such as generative AI. “Not every valid submission represents a meaningful security risk. Some reports identify hardening opportunities or documentation gaps,” Jarom Brown, a senior security researcher at GitHub, wrote in a blog post. On top of that, he said, many of the reports GitHub receives describe out-of-scope scenarios in which someone experiences an “undesirable” outcome after interacting with malicious content in GitHub. “These reports are often well-written and technically accurate in their observations, but they misunderstand where the security bo

Mini Shai-Hulud npm campaign compromises @antv packages, targeting blockchain developers’ GitHub tokens, AWS keys, and CI/CD secrets in a coordinated supply chain attack. The malicious publishes started just before 2 a.m. UTC on May 19. By the time most developers on the East Coast had their first coffee, the damage was already done. Socket’s Threat […] The post npm Supply Chain Attack Hits @antv: Blockchain Dev Secrets Now Exposed appeared first on Live Bitcoin News.

OpenAI says malware tied to the Shai-Hulud supply chain attack accessed internal repositories after infecting two employee devices.

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