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GitHub is a web-based platform for hosting and collaborating on software using Git version control, offering features such as pull requests.
… "Our current assessment is that the activity involved exfiltration of GitHub-internal repositories only," GitHub shared most recently on X , "The attacker’s current claims of ~3,800 repositories are directionally consistent with our investigation so far." The attack reportedly took place via a comp… …
… The researchers say the infostealer posed as an internal "archive deployment sync utility", but in reality, it "authenticates to GitHub using an environment token or a hard-coded fallback , checks whether a target repository exists, creates it if needed, then recursively walks a local directory and… …
… This is mainly from the latest issues with github, from stability, AI, and where they are putting their focus". GitHub has been a mecca of open-source development for a very long time, and even Microsoft acquiring it in 2018 didn't shake loose most of its devs despite some controversy. …