Three Golang modules on GitHub were found containing dangerous malware The malware was designed to wipe the entire disk of a Linux server It was removed from the platform Dangerous Linux malware, ...

Risk vector: Package managers like npm, pip, Maven, and Go modules all enable pulling dependencies directly from GitHub repositories instead of official registries. Attack surface: Using mutable ...

Since its inception, the Git DVCS tool's default branch name was set to master. Every Git repository had a master branch unless a developer took explicit steps to remove it, which was rarely ever done ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. In a previous git submodules tutorial, I added submodules to a stand-alone repository. There was ...

GitHub is struggling to contain an ongoing attack that’s flooding the site with millions of code repositories. These repositories contain obfuscated malware that steals passwords and cryptocurrency ...

The latest version also executes malicious code during the preinstall phase, and is bigger and faster than the first wave, ...

A supply-chain attack targets Linux servers with disk-wiping malware hidden in Golang modules published on GitHub. The campaign was detected last month and relied on three malicious Go modules that ...