GitHub, the Microsoft Corp.-owned code hosting platform serving more than 180 million developers, is still reeling from a widespread outage on Monday that severely disrupted software development pipelines globally. The […]
GitHub Hit by Widespread Outage, Halting Work for Global Developers
A major technical outage struck GitHub on Monday morning, disrupting workflows for millions of developers worldwide for several hours as critical services, automated testing pipelines, and artificial intelligence (AI) coding […]
Fast-Moving Shai-Hulud Attack Infects npm Packages with 2 Billion Monthly Downloads
Researchers at Aikido Security and Endor Labs are tracking a fast-spreading supply-chain attack that is compromising a wide range of npm software packages that combined have more than 2 billion […]
GitHub Gives Teams More Control Over Copilot’s Cloud Agent in Linear
GitHub’s Copilot cloud agent integration with Linear is now generally available, adding model, branch and team-level controls for delegated coding work.
Novee Uncovers Cordyceps: The Latest Threat to CI/CD Pipelines
A newly discovered supply chain security flaw is once again putting a spotlight on inherent weaknesses in CI/CD pipelines and the growing interest among cyberthreat actors to exploit them. Security […]
GitHub Removes PAT Requirement for Agentic Workflows
GitHub Agentic Workflows can now use GitHub Actions’ built-in GITHUB_TOKEN instead of a personal access token (PAT). That means developers no longer need to create, store, or rotate a PAT to run agentic workflows, eliminating both the operational hassle and the security risks that come with managing long-lived tokens at scale.
Security Flaw in Claude Code Illustrates the Risk of AI in Developer Workflows
AI coding agents are reshaping software development—but they’re also expanding the attack surface. Researchers uncovered a now-patched vulnerability in Anthropic’s Claude Code GitHub Action that could have enabled prompt injection attacks to expose CI/CD secrets, API keys, and credentials. As AI agents gain autonomy in development workflows, organizations must treat untrusted inputs as hostile and rethink CI/CD security models. Natural language is becoming executable code—and attackers know it.
Shai-Hulud Clone ‘Miasma’ Compromises 32 Red Hat npm Packages
The threat group behind the notorious Mini Shai-Hulud worm last month put the complete source code for the malware into a GitHub repository, essentially open sourcing the threat so that […]
Critical Microsoft GitHub Flaw Highlights Dangers to CI/CD Pipelines: Tenable
A critical vulnerability in a popular Microsoft GitHub repository could allow a threat actor to easily exploit its CI/CD infrastructure to run arbitrary code in the repository and gain access […]
Sophisticated Supply Chain Attack Targeting Trivy Expands to Checkmarx, LiteLLM
The supply chain attack that compromised Aqua Security’s Trivy open source security vulnerability scanner and its associated GitHub Actions earlier this month continues to expand, with software development tools from […]
