"Repositories" | MrHacker

GitHub Rolls Out Default Secret Scanning Push Protection for Public Repositories

GitHub on Thursday announced that it’s enabling secret scanning push protection by default for all pushes to public repositories. “This means that...

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Vulnerabilities

15,000 Go Module Repositories on GitHub Vulnerable to Repojacking Attack

New research has found that over 15,000 Go module repositories on GitHub are vulnerable to an attack called repojacking. “More than 9,000...

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Malware

GitHub Repositories Hit by Password-Stealing Commits Disguised as Dependabot Contributions

A new deceptive campaign has been observed hijacking GitHub accounts and committing malicious code disguised as Dependabot contributions with an aim to...

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Vulnerabilities

Critical GitHub Vulnerability Exposes 4,000+ Repositories to Repojacking Attack

A new vulnerability disclosed in GitHub could have exposed thousands of repositories at risk of repojacking attacks, new findings show. The flaw...

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Data Breach

GitHub Breach – Hackers Stole Code Signing Certificates From Repositories

GitHub announced that it suffered a security breach in which unauthorized individuals obtained access to specific development and release planning repositories and...

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Incidents

GitHub hacked again, GitHub Desktop and Atom repositories certificates stolen

GitHub discovered illegal access to a collection of repositories on December 7, 2022. These repositories were used in the design and development...

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Incidents

Slack hacked, confidential code repositories breached

On December 31st, Slack informed users about the issue. Slack said that it became aware of the suspicious behavior on December 29;...

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Cyber Attack

Hackers Breach Okta’s GitHub Repositories, Steal Source Code

Okta, a company that provides identity and access management services, disclosed on Wednesday that some of its source code repositories were accessed...

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Malware

Malware Strains Targeting Python and JavaScript Developers Through Official Repositories

An active malware campaign is targeting the Python Package Index (PyPI) and npm repositories for Python and JavaScript with typosquatted and fake...

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Malware

GitHub Repojacking Bug Could’ve Allowed Attackers to Takeover Other Users’ Repositories

Cloud-based repository hosting service GitHub has addressed a high-severity security flaw that could have been exploited to create malicious repositories and mount...

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Malware

Package Analysis – OpenSSf Tool to Detect Malicious Packages in Popular Open-Source Repositories

A prototype version of the Package Analysis tool has been recently released by the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), and it is...

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Incidents

GitHub was hacked. Source code is filtered from different repositories

In its latest security report, GitHub confirmed that a group of threat actors are using OAuth tokens from legitimate users to download...

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Data Security

6 official Python repositories plagued with cryptomining malware

Researchers at security firm Sonatype have uncovered six malicious typosquatting packages in the official Python programming language’s PyPI repository, laced with cryptomining malware. Sonatype...

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Hack Tools

[Blackhat Europe tool] DumpTheGit: find sensitive information uploaded to the Github repositories

DumpTheGit DumpTheGit searches through public repositories to find sensitive information uploaded to the Github repositories. The tool will flag the matches for...

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News

Top 100 Most Valuable GitHub Repositories

GitHub undoubtedly has the most popular repositories in the coding world. It isn’t just a code hosting service which offers version control...

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Incidents

Hackers steal source code from hundreds of GitHub repositories and demand ransom

According to cyber forensics course specialists, GitHub, open source software development platform, has been the target of a campaign of aggressive cyberattacks....

Tricks & How To's

How to Fix and Update Kali Linux Repositories

The single most common causes of a broken Kali Linux installation are following unofficial advice, and particularly arbitrarily populating the system’s sources.list file with...

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Lists

10 Best Kodi Repositories For 2019 To Download Popular Addons

With online streaming becoming popular by the day, there has been a rise in the portals and apps that allow you to...

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News

GitHub Free Users Will Now Get Unlimited Private Repositories

Microsoft has announced unlimited private repositories for all free members on GitHub. Previously, GitHub offered free accounts but the code had to...