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GitHub is a Microsoft-owned platform for hosting and collaborating on Git code repositories, offering CI/CD, Pages hosting, Copilot AI tools, and APIs.
According to a GitHub issue on REA, a fake rea-tools repo offered a Windows exe that 8 of 45 VirusTotal engines flag, with 172 downloads. The copy shipped a binary and no npm package was reported, so the npx risk is a next-attack scenario; two checks on repo name and creation dates would have caught this one.
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VulnCheck counted Chrome CVEs up 563% and GitHub-issued CVEs up 476% year to date in a May 14, 2026 post. It calls the rise consistent with AI-assisted bug finding, but whether the volume lasts is unknown, so exploitation data still sets patch order.
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GhostAction attackers used roughly 1,900 hijacked GitHub accounts to plant credential-stealing workflows in over 30,000 repos. No GitHub Actions flaw was involved, so defence means rotating exposed keys and reviewing who edits workflows.
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Anthropic is giving eligible Claude Enterprise organizations $10,000 to $50,000 in Code Review credits for up to 30 days after an owner claims them. Reviews keep running when the pool is gone, so the spend limit set before claiming decides the first paid day.
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GitHub retired Classroom on 28 August 2026, decommissioning its website and APIs after closing new sign-ups on 26 May. Educators who did not export their data before then have to rebuild what Classroom held themselves.
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Russian authorities have arrested three of the four suspected members of DataSuckers in the Dodo Pizza investigation, Risky.Biz and Nasha Niva report. Police tracked a 19-year-old from Barnaul through his home IP address, according to Risky.Biz.
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Glow counts more than 13,000 internal images in 900-plus public GitHub repos tied to developers at 300-plus organizations. Its report ties the uploads to coding agents that needed somewhere to show reviewers a screenshot a private repo could not render.
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GitHub's Actions lockfile, in public preview since October 2026, pins each action in a workflow to a commit SHA, DEV Community reports. A pinned commit that vanishes fails the run, so teams trade silent drift for hard errors.
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GitHub will remove Claude Opus 4.8, Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra from Copilot on November 16, according to its October 15 changelog. The vendors keep all three on their own APIs, so teams can call those directly or switch.
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GitHub built Evergreen, an app that revokes outside collaborators' access when nobody answers a quarterly review. GitHub says orgs that share repos with customers can adapt it. It runs on stock GitHub features and a small Go server.
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Cisco Talos and Recorded Future tie a June 2025 to August 2026 campaign against CIS governments to UAT-6275. Talos rates its Kazakhstan nexus at medium confidence, and Recorded Future tracks the same activity as TAG-193.
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Curl ended its bug bounty in January 2026 after AI-written reports cut its confirmed rate below 5%, a dev.to post says. The post's own shares and rates explain only a small part of that drop.
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GitHub put workflow lockfiles in public preview, so onboarded Actions runs use the commits recorded in actions.lock even if a tag or branch moves. The lock does not assess whether the action is safe; that review stays with the team.
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Two GitHub repositories revived the Overdrive PS5 game store within about a day of its reported takedown by Sony. Neither Sony nor the developer has confirmed the notice, TechSpot reported.
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GitHub missed its September 30 goal to deploy every production service in Central US, with 120 of 160 there by October 7. Primary MySQL databases are further behind: 13 of 51 had moved, according to GitHub's availability report.
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GitHub added an endpoint that returns up to 30 weeks of daily star counts in one request, with no stargazer identities attached. Its engineering post, headlined "From 2,500 requests to 24," says the old route needed about 2,511 calls for react/react.
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GitHub added Anthropic service and user API keys to push protection defaults on October 13, but a push is blocked only where secret scanning is enabled. Teams whose agents push config need to check coverage per repository, private ones included.
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GitHub says a fine-tuned ModernBERT classifier cut median post-push secret-scan time by 86% and model serving costs by over 98% against its LLM pipeline. The speed also let it extend generic secret detection to push protection.
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GhostAction's fake workflow sets fetch-depth: 0 and runs git log -p --all, so deleted secrets are in reach, a dev.to author reports. A credential removed from the current files is still in every earlier commit, so it has to be revoked at the provider.
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GitHub's Oct. 13 changelog adds two Anthropic key types, user and service, to the secrets push protection blocks by default. A private repository on default settings still gets no block, according to a dev.to analysis of the entry.
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