Saturday, October 17, 2026

GitHub

UAT-6275 Hackers Use WinRAR Exploit and GitHub PowerShell to Target CIS Governments

An espionage campaign targeting government organizations across the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), with additional interest in water, environmental, and energy sectors. The investigation found four infection chains active...

Meta GitHub Repositories Compromised, Exposing Software Code and Employee Personal Data

Meta has revealed a breach of a GitHub repository that exposed software code and personal information belonging to about 1,500 individuals, most of whom...

Hackers Abuse GitHub Actions to Steal SSH Keys, Cloud Credentials and Access Tokens

Hackers are abusing GitHub Actions to steal SSH keys, cloud credentials, and access tokens through malicious workflows disguised as security checks. The workflows targeted...

GitHub Copilot CLI Flaw Lets Attackers Steal Developer Secrets Using Encrypted Prompt Injection

Security researchers have revealed an attack against GitHub Copilot CLI that can expose developer secrets through an attacker-controlled webpage. This technique is called Cryptographic...

Researchers Find 543,699 Active Credentials Leaked in Public GitHub Repos

Security researchers have identified 543,699 unique credentials that remain valid despite being exposed in public GitHub repositories. This highlights a persistent failure to revoke...

AI Agents Expose 13,000+ Developer Screenshots Across 900+ GitHub Repositories

AI coding agents have inadvertently exposed over 13,000 internal developer screenshots in public GitHub repositories. These exposures potentially revealed sensitive information such as customer...

GitHub AI Agent Uncovers 24 Android App Vulnerabilities

GitHub Security Lab has disclosed 24 vulnerabilities in Android applications discovered through its open-source AI security agent and specialized audit taskflows. The findings highlight...

Hackers Compromise 65 GitHub Repositories and Poison npm Package With Hidden Backdoor

Threat actors have compromised at least 65 public GitHub repositories in a software supply-chain campaign that abused npm trusted publishing to distribute a stealthy...

AWS Detects and Quarantines Exposed IAM Credentials in Public GitHub Repositories

AWS can automatically quarantine exposed Identity and Access Management (IAM) access keys that appear in public GitHub repositories. This process involves applying a restrictive...

HEIF Heist Image Flaws Let Attackers Gain RCE Across Meta, Slack and GitHub Enterprise

“HEIF Heist,” a broad class of image-processing attack paths that could allow threat actors to turn malicious HEIF, HEIC, and AVIF uploads into remote...

Kimsuky Uses OpenCode AI Agent and GitHub PATs in Operation GitPower Attacks

North Korea-linked threat actor Kimsuky has expanded its Operation GitPower activity with malicious LNK shortcuts, GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT)-authenticated payload delivery, and AI-generated...