Researchers at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science found thousands of repositories on GitHub that offer fake proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for various vulnerabilities, some of them ...

The software development platform GitHub allows users to manage projects by making repositories private, preventing code from being seen by anyone other than those involved. However, an ...

Thousands of open-source code repositories on GitHub could be vulnerable to an old exploit, according to a report from Aqua Security Software Ltd.’s Nautilus research team published this week.

The researchers said the number of repos uploaded or forked before GitHub removes them is likely in the millions. They said the attack “impacts more than 100,000 GitHub repositories.” ...

GitHub is constantly being bombarded with malware, as hackers employ typosquatting, impersonation, and outright fraud, to try and trick people into downloading malware instead of legitimate code.

Using Bing’s caching mechanism, the company found more than 20,000 since-private GitHub repositories still had data accessible through Copilot, affecting more than 16,000 organizations.