Stay informed about the latest Github infosec updates, security breaches, and protection strategies with our comprehensive information security news.
Search across headline titles and summaries.
Background for this topic.
GitHub is a hosted software-development platform built around Git repositories. It supports public and private source-code hosting, change review through pull requests, issue tracking, automated workflows, and package distribution. Its repositories and automation are important security assets because they can contain proprietary code, deployment instructions, credentials, and the components used to build released software.
Material risks include accidentally committing secrets, exposing private repositories through misconfigured permissions, and allowing compromised dependencies or workflow actions to run in trusted build environments. Pull requests from untrusted contributors can also become an execution path when workflows handle them unsafely. Security practice includes least-privilege access, strong authentication, protected branches and required reviews, secret scanning and rapid credential revocation, and auditing workflow permissions. Repository history, dependency metadata, and commit provenance can support vulnerability management and incident investigation, but deleting a leaked secret from the latest file does not remove it from historical commits or existing clones.
Salesloft has revealed that threat actors targeted customer Salesforce data after breaching its GitHub account
Salesloft Says Hackers Broke Into Its GitHub RepositoryCybersecurity firms Tenable and Qualys fell to attacks stemming from hacker theft of authentication tokens from a third-party tool often integrated into Salesforce. The firms disclosed their exposure to the attack that lifted access tokens from marketing-as-a-service software provider Salesloft.
The breach kickstarted a massive supply chain attack that led to the compromise of hundreds of Salesforce instances through stolen OAuth tokens.
A new supply chain attack on GitHub, dubbed 'GhostAction,' has compromised 3,325 secrets, including PyPI, npm, DockerHub, GitHub tokens, Cloudflare, and AWS keys. [...]
Meanwhile the victim count grows The Salesloft Drift breach that compromised "hundreds" of companies including Google, Palo Alto Networks, and Cloudflare, all started with miscreants gaining access to the Salesloft GitHub account in March.…
Salesloft says attackers first breached its GitHub account in March, leading to the theft of Drift OAuth tokens later used in widespread Salesforce data theft attacks in August. [...]
Salesloft has revealed that the data breach linked to its Drift application started with the compromise of its GitHub account
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a new sophisticated malware campaign that leverages paid ads on search engines like Google to deliver malware to unsuspecting users looking for popular tools like GitHub Desktop
Security researchers have discovered a new malicious campaign impacting hundreds of GitHub users