India's Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) has condemned a government order directing GitHub to remove repositories for Jack Dorsey’s BitChat app, calling it unconstitutional and a threat to free speech. The government's cybercrime agency cited BitChat's potential use for bypassing internet shutdowns and evading surveillance.
India's cybercrime agency, I4C, ordered GitHub to remove the code for Jack Dorsey's decentralized messaging app Bitchat within three hours. The agency cited security concerns, potential exploitation during public disorder, and the app's use by protestors during recent exam-paper leak rallies.
Microsoft has temporarily removed dozens of its open source projects from GitHub after discovering malware that steals user passwords, impacting Azure and AI development tools.
GitHub confirmed a hack affecting 3,800 internal code repositories. Attackers used a poisoned VS Code extension to compromise an employee device. The group TeamPCP claimed responsibility and is selling the data.
GitHub confirmed a cyberattack involving unauthorized access to internal repositories after a threat actor claimed to be selling company data. The breach was linked to a poisoned VS Code extension on an employee device.
GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to its internal repositories following a compromise of an employee's device via a poisoned VS Code extension. A hacking group, TeamPCP, claims responsibility and is reportedly selling the data online.
GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to its internal repositories after a hacker group claimed to have stolen approximately 4,000 repositories. The company stated that there is no evidence of customer data or repositories being affected at this time.
OpenAI's internal development environment was breached by hackers using compromised TanStack npm package, affecting employee devices and limited code repositories, but no customer data or production systems were compromised.
Malware repositories vx-underground (30TB) and VirusTotal (31PB) are visualized in terms of stacked hard drives, comparing their heights to landmarks like the Eiffel Tower and Burj Khalifa.
Malware repositories vx-underground (30TB) and VirusTotal (31PB) are compared in scale by hypothetically stacking 1TB hard drives, revealing VirusTotal's data would form a structure nearly as tall as the Burj Khalifa.
GitHub COO Kyle Daigle has confirmed the platform is processing 275 million commits per week—up from one billion across all of 2025—as AI agent workflows overwhelm infrastructure never designed for autonomous coding. Two major incidents in April broke thousands of repositories, pushing uptime below 85 percent. Ghostty developer Mitchell Hashimoto, GitHub's 1,299th user, has since announced he's leaving the platform entirely.
GitHub CTO Vlad Fedorov issued a rare public apology for recent platform outages, citing an unexpected surge in AI agent workflows demanding 30x current capacity. April uptime fell below 85%, impacting thousands of repositories and pull requests.
In GitHub und GitHub Enterprise Server können Angreifer mit Push-Rechten auf Repositories Schadcode einschleusen. Updates korrigieren das.
GitHub employees fixed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in less than six hours last month. Wiz Research used AI models to uncover a vulnerability in GitHub's internal git infrastructure that could have allowed attackers to access millions of public and private code repositories. "Our security team immediately began validating the bug bounty report. Within […]
