LastPass discovers new infostealer variant disguised as GitHub repo

Fake GitHub repositories are used to lure victims into downloading. An infostealer uses signatures from Microsoft’s Hardware ...
Hosted on MSN

GitHub outage: Web, API traffic hit by high error rates; downloads see 50% failures

GitHub is experiencing a widespread service disruption, with several of its core services reporting degraded performance and availability, according to the company's status page. The incident began at ...
BleepingComputer

FakeGit campaign uses 7,600 GitHub repos to push SmartLoader malware

A large-scale operation dubbed ‘FakeGit’ is pushing SmartLoader and StealC malware through 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories that accumulated more than 14 million downloads. Over 800 repositories ...
Ars Technica

GitHub besieged by millions of malicious repositories in ongoing attack

GitHub is struggling to contain an ongoing attack that’s flooding the site with millions of code repositories. These repositories contain obfuscated malware that steals passwords and cryptocurrency ...
Dark Reading

Millions of Malicious Repositories Flood GitHub

Cyberattackers in just the last few months have registered more than 100,000 — but by some estimates more than a million — malicious copycat repositories on GitHub. The "repo confusion" scheme is ...