GitHub confirms 3,800 internal repos stolen through poisoned VS Code extension as supply chain worm hits Microsoft’s Python SDK

GitHub confirmed attackers stole 3,800 internal repositories via a poisoned VS Code extension. The same threat group, TeamPCP, simultaneously compromised Microsoft's durabletask Python ...
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GitHub Updates actions/checkout to Block Common Pwn Request Attack Patterns

GitHub’s actions/checkout v7 now blocks risky fork PR checkouts in privileged workflows to reduce common pwn request attacks.
Developer Tech

GitHub brings agentic workflows to GitHub Actions

GitHub has released Agentic Workflows in public preview, bringing coding agents into GitHub Actions for automated engineering ...
CSOonline

GitHub Actions attack renders even security-aware orgs vulnerable

Many open-source repositories contain privileged GitHub Actions workflows that execute untrusted code and can be triggered by attackers to expose credentials and access tokens, as MITRE and Splunk ...
CSO Online

Meet Hades: The malware that lies to AI security agents

Researchers have uncovered a supply-chain attack that hides in Python packages, propagates like a worm, and tricks LLM-based ...
InfoWorld

Thousands of open source projects at risk from hack of GitHub Actions tool

App development teams who use a popular utility in the GitHub Actions continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment (CI/CD) platform need to scrub their code because the tool was ...

GitHub disables Microsoft repos pushing password-stealing malware

Microsoft removed 73 repositories across its Azure, microsoft, Azure-Samples, and MicrosoftDocs organizations on GitHub, ...
InfoWorld

What is GitHub Actions? Automated CI/CD for GitHub

GitHub Actions is a platform built into GitHub that automates software building, testing, and deployment. GitHub, owned by Microsoft, is a hosting service for software development using Git, an open ...