An unknown user going by the handle "Gitloker" is grabbing and wiping clean repositories on GitHub in an apparent effort to extort victims. The campaign, which a researcher at Chilean cybersecurity ...

A clever threat campaign is abusing GitHub repositories to distribute the Lumma Stealer password-stealing malware targeting users who frequent an open source project repository or are subscribed to ...

Private and deleted GitHub repositories are not as secure as users might assume. Data from deleted forks, deleted repositories, and private repositories can still be accessed, often indefinitely. This ...

Sophos thinks a single person or group called "ischhfd83" is behind more than a hundred backdoored malware variants targeting novice cybercriminals and video game cheaters looking to get their hands ...

GitHub has announced that its secret scanning alerts service is now generally available to all public repositories and can be enabled to detect leaked secrets across an entire publishing history.

Until now, the most compelling reason to opt into the GitHub Pro paid product was because it enabled you to create a private repository. Developers could use GitHub's free offering -- with a ...