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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.
GitHub on Thursday announced that it’s enabling secret scanning push protection by default for all pushes to public repositories
Cloned then compromised, bad repos are forked faster than they can be removed A malware distribution campaign that began last May with a handful of malicious software packages uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) has spread to GitHub and expanded to reach at least 100,000 compromised repositories.…
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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. [...]
An "intricately designed" remote access trojan (RAT) called Xeno RAT has been made available on GitHub, making it available to other actors at no extra cost