GitHub – HackRead | Latest Cybersecurity and Hacking News Site https://www.hackread.com HackRead | Latest Cybersecurity and Hacking News Site Mon, 27 Mar 2023 19:42:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 https://www.hackread.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cropped-Favicon-for-HACKREAD-32x32.png GitHub – HackRead | Latest Cybersecurity and Hacking News Site https://www.hackread.com 32 32 Portion of Twitter’s proprietary source code leaked on GitHub https://www.hackread.com/twitter-source-code-leak-github/ Mon, 27 Mar 2023 19:41:04 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=109519 By Deeba Ahmed

Twitter had to file a DMCA request after its source code was found on GitHub.

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GitHub Reports Code-Signing Certificate Theft in Security Breach https://www.hackread.com/github-code-signing-certificate-breach/ Wed, 01 Feb 2023 03:01:39 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=106836 By Deeba Ahmed

GitHub states that hackers gained access to its code repositories and stole code-signing certificates for two of its desktop apps: Desktop and Atom.

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GitHub Disables Pages of Pro-Russia DDoS Group NoName057(16) https://www.hackread.com/github-disables-pages-ddos-noname05716/ Mon, 16 Jan 2023 13:27:16 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=105892 By Deeba Ahmed

NoName057(16) is a group that has been targeting NATO and Czech presidential election candidates' websites recently.

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GitHub Attack Allowed Attackers to Steal Okta’s Source Code https://www.hackread.com/okta-source-code-github-attack/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 22:19:04 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=105176 By Deeba Ahmed

Okta has, however, confirmed that attackers couldn’t access its customer data or services. Authentication giant Okta has suffered…

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GitHub Abused to Distribute Malicious Packages on PyPI in Image Files https://www.hackread.com/github-malicious-package-pypi-image-files/ Thu, 10 Nov 2022 19:05:22 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=103015 By Waqas

Threat actors are using steganography to hide malicious code in images.

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GitHub fixes critical vulnerability that exposed repositories to attackers https://www.hackread.com/github-high-severity-repositories-vulnerability/ Thu, 27 Oct 2022 23:27:15 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=102450 By Deeba Ahmed

The vulnerability allowed attackers to take control of GitHub repositories and infect codes and apps with malware.

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US Blacklists Tornado Cash, GitHub Removes Co-Founder in Response https://www.hackread.com/us-blacklists-tornado-cash-github-removes-co-founder/ Tue, 09 Aug 2022 12:34:56 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=98919 By Deeba Ahmed

The US Treasury Department has blacklisted Tornado Cash on the accusation that the platform helped bad actors harvest…

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Thousands of GitHub Repositories Cloned in Supply Chain Attack https://www.hackread.com/thousands-github-repositories-cloned-supply-chain-attack/ Thu, 04 Aug 2022 19:47:05 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=98733 By Deeba Ahmed

This hasn’t been a great week for the crypto community. On Monday, the Nomad bridge got exploited and…

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Hackers can spoof commit metadata to create false GitHub repositories https://www.hackread.com/hackers-spoof-commit-metadata-false-github-repositories/ Sun, 17 Jul 2022 19:47:04 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=98103 By Deeba Ahmed

Checkmarx security researchers have warned about an emerging new supply chain attack tactic involving spoofed metadata commits to present malicious…

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GitHub: Hackers Stole OAuth Access Tokens to Target Dozens of Firms https://www.hackread.com/github-hackers-stole-oauth-access-tokens-of-firms/ Sat, 16 Apr 2022 16:55:26 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=94538 By Deeba Ahmed

GitHub has revealed that attackers have abused OAuth user tokens issued to Heroku and Travis-CI, popular third-party OAuth…

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