GitHub supply chain attack spills secrets from 23,000 projects

It's not such a happy Monday for defenders wiping the sleep from their eyes only to deal with the latest supply chain attack.
Ars Technica

Large enterprises scramble after supply-chain attack spills their secrets

Open source software used by more than 23,000 organizations, some of them in large enterprises, was compromised with credential-stealing code after attackers gained unauthorized access to a maintainer ...
Bleeping Computer

GitHub now scans for accidentally-exposed PyPI, RubyGems secrets

GitHub has recently expanded its secrets scanning capabilities to repositories containing PyPI and RubyGems registry secrets. The move helps protect millions of applications built by Ruby and Python ...
TheServerSide

How to use GitHub Actions secrets to hide your tokens and passwords example

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. One of the ongoing challenges DevOps professionals face when developing continuous integration ...
InfoWorld

GitHub suffers a cascading supply chain attack compromising CI/CD secrets

A sophisticated cascading supply chain attack has compromised multiple GitHub Actions, exposing critical CI/CD secrets across tens of thousands of repositories. The ...
Bleeping Computer

Hackers steal 3,325 secrets in GhostAction GitHub supply chain attack

A new supply chain attack on GitHub, dubbed 'GhostAction,' has compromised 3,325 secrets, including PyPI, npm, DockerHub, GitHub tokens, Cloudflare, and AWS keys. The attack was discovered by ...
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 ...
CSOonline

GhostAction campaign steals 3325 secrets in GitHub supply chain attack

GitGuardian has disclosed a new software supply chain attack campaign, dubbed GhostAction, that exfiltrated thousands of sensitive credentials before being detected and contained on September 5. The ...
InfoWorld

GitHub Action Secrets aren’t secret anymore: exposed PATs now a direct path into cloud environments

Many enterprises use GitHub Action Secrets to store and protect sensitive information such as credentials, API keys, and tokens used in CI/CD workflows. These private repositories are widely assumed ...