Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Datadog Security Labs is warning of "several overlapping campaigns" that are systematically enumerating corporate GitHub organizations, repositories, and user accounts through the GitHub API

GitBait phishing kit abuses GitHub Pages and the SheetBest API to steal Mexican banking credentials

GitHub access sales, leaked repositories, and stolen API keys can all become supply-chain attack footholds. Flare explores how underground forums expose early signals tied to software supply-chain risk. [...]

Researchers who found the flaws scored beer money bounties and warn the problem is probably pervasive Exclusive Security researchers hijacked three popular AI agents that integrate with GitHub Actions by using a new type of prompt injection attack to steal API keys and access tokens, and the vendors who run agents didn’t disclose the problem.…

A large-scale credential harvesting operation has been observed exploiting the React2Shell vulnerability as an initial infection vector to steal database credentials, SSH private keys, Amazon Web Services (AWS) secrets, shell command history, Stripe API keys, and GitHub tokens at scale

Before an attacker ever sends a payload, they’ve already done the work of understanding how your environment is built. They look at your login flows, your JavaScript files, your error messages, your API documentation, your GitHub repos. These are all clues that help them understand how your systems behave. AI is significantly accelerating reconnaissance and enabling attackers to map your

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new cryptojacking campaign that's targeting publicly accessible DevOps web servers such as those associated with Docker, Gitea, and HashiCorp Consul and Nomad to illicitly mine cryptocurrencies

A employee at Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that for the past two months could have allowed anyone to query private xAI large language models (LLMs) which appear to have been custom made for working with internal data from Musk's companies, including SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter/X, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

Over 39 million secrets like API keys and account credentials were leaked on GitHub throughout 2024, exposing organizations and users to significant security risks. [...]

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an updated version of a malware loader called Hijack Loader that implements new features to evade detection and establish persistence on compromised systems

Vulnerability Tool Detected Flaws in OpenAI and Nvidia APIs Used in GitHub ProjectsSecurity researchers have developed an AI tool that can detect remote code flaws and arbitrary zero-day code in software. Protect AI applied the tool to nearly 10,000 GitHub projects and on CVSS data and uncovered local file inclusion, cross-site scripting and remote code flaws in APIs.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that masquerades as a library from the Solana blockchain platform but is actually designed to steal victims' secrets

The recent large scale supply chain attack conducted via multiple CDNs, namely Polyfill.io, BootCDN, Bootcss, and Staticfile that affected up to tens of millions of websites has been traced to a common operator. Researchers discovered a public GitHub repository with leaked API keys helping them draw a conclusion. [...]

GitGuardian is famous for its annual State of Secrets Sprawl report. In their 2023 report, they found over 10 million exposed passwords, API keys, and other credentials exposed in public GitHub commits. The takeaways in their 2024 report did not just highlight 12.8 million new exposed secrets in GitHub, but a number in the popular Python package repository PyPI

GitGuardian is famous for its annual State of Secrets Sprawl report. In their 2023 report, they found over 10 million exposed passwords, API keys, and other credentials exposed in public GitHub commits. The takeaways in their 2024 report did not just highlight 12.8 million new exposed secrets in GitHub, but a number in the popular Python package repository PyPI

GitHub has enabled push protection by default for all public repositories to prevent accidental exposure of secrets such as access tokens and API keys when pushing new code. [...]

Hugging Face Fixes Flaw; Meta, Other Tech Giants Revoke Vulnerable TokensSecurity researchers could access and modify an artificial intelligence code generation model developed by Facebook after scanning for API access tokens on AI developer platform Hugging Face and code repository GitHub. Tampering with training data is among the top threats to large language models.

The title of this article probably sounds like the caption to a meme. Instead, this is an actual problem GitGuardian's engineers had to solve in implementing the mechanisms for their new HasMySecretLeaked service. They wanted to help developers find out if their secrets (passwords, API keys, private keys, cryptographic certificates, etc.) had found their way into public GitHub repositories. How

A few lines of code can help you prevent accidental exposure, manage sensitive information, and maintain different configurations for various environments.

With more than 50,000 publicly leaked OpenAI keys on GitHub alone, OpenAI developer accounts are the third-most exposed in the world.