Yesterday, following a DMCA complaint from HackerRank, GitHub took down a repository that hosts the official SymPy project documentation website. First released fifteen years ago, SymPy is an open ...

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

GitHub confirmed on May 20 that a poisoned VS Code extension installed on an employee’s device gave attackers access to roughly 3,800 internal repositories at the Microsoft-owned code storage and ...

So, thanks to a helpful Github employee on StackOverflow, I learned that GHA has a couple of helpful "features" that were tripping me up: - The 'checkout@v2' action by default only does a minimal ...

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 ...

An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious ...