Cyberattackers in just the last few months have registered more than 100,000 — but by some estimates more than a million — malicious copycat repositories on GitHub. The "repo confusion" scheme is ...

In a nutshell, UBI is a small Rust program that installs binaries from GitHub or GitLab. Software developers don't just ...

GitHub is struggling to contain an ongoing attack that’s flooding the site with millions of code repositories. These repositories contain obfuscated malware that steals passwords and cryptocurrency ...

A GitHub flaw, or possibly a design decision, is being abused by threat actors to distribute malware using URLs associated with Microsoft repositories, making the files appear trustworthy. While most ...

A clever threat campaign is abusing GitHub repositories to distribute the Lumma Stealer password-stealing malware targeting users who frequent an open source project repository or are subscribed to ...

Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is exposing the contents of more than 20,000 private GitHub repositories from companies including Google, Intel, Huawei, PayPal, IBM, Tencent and, ironically, ...

Since its inception, the Git DVCS tool's default branch name was set to master. Every Git repository had a master branch unless a developer took explicit steps to remove it, which was rarely ever done ...