Hackers are abusing compromised GitHub repositories and GitHub Actions workflows to build a de facto global botnet that scans and exploits web hosting servers, with a primary focus on cPanel and WHM deployments. The campaign first surfaced when malicious development versions were discovered across ten Packagist PHP packages tied to a legitimate PHP and DevOps […]

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Attackers can silently clone “Verified” GitHub commits by abusing signature malleability in Git’s commit-signing formats, creating byte‑different commits with identical content, valid signatures, and fresh “Verified” badges under new hashes. This breaks the long‑standing assumption that a verified commit hash is a unique, immutable identifier for a specific piece of signed content and exposes hash‑based […]

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A critical vulnerability known as “GitLost” has been discovered in GitHub’s newly introduced Agentic Workflows by Noma Labs. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to exfiltrate sensitive data from private repositories. It demonstrates how AI-driven automation within development pipelines can be manipulated to bypass conventional access controls and leak confidential information across repository boundaries. GitLost Vulnerability […]

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