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

It's not such a happy Monday for defenders wiping the sleep from their eyes only to deal with the latest supply chain attack.

GitHub announced updates to its Advanced Security platform after it detected over 39 million leaked secrets in repositories during 2024, including API keys and credentials, exposing users and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...