WinBuzzer

GitHub Actions Flaw Lets Pull Requests Reach Secrets and CI/CD Tokens

Cybersecurity firm Novee has identified a GitHub Actions workflow-chain risk that can expose secrets even when checks pass, ...

The GitHub Actions Attack Pattern Your CI Security Scanners Miss

ActiveState explains how GitHub Actions attack chains can evade traditional CI security scanners, why passing a scan doesn't ...
VentureBeat

GitHub confirms 3,800 internal repos stolen through poisoned VS Code extension as supply chain worm hits Microsoft’s Python SDK

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 ...
Ars Technica

Auth error trying to copy a repo with Github Actions

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 ...
The Hacker News

Public GitHub Issue Could Trick GitHub Agentic Workflows Into Leaking Private Repo Data

The issue affects GitHub Agentic Workflows setups that read public input, hold private repo access, and can post output ...
CSOonline

GitHub Actions attack renders even security-aware orgs vulnerable

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 ...
Bleeping Computer

GitHub restores popular Python repo hit by bogus DMCA takedown

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 ...