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<item><title>Rapid7 Analysis: GitLab CI/CD Regex Integer Overflow (CVE-2026-97229)</title><link>https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/ra-gitlab-ci-cd-regex-integer-overflow-technical-analysis-cve-2026-97229</link><guid isPermaLink="false">1wm9uj3</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:31:56 GMT</pubDate><description>Rapid7. Overview On October 12, 2026, GitLab released 19.4.2 , 19.3.5 , and 19.2.8 to fix CVE-2026-97229 , an integer overflow in its CI/CD regular-expression handling. The issue was reported through HackerOne by joaxcar . GitLab assigned it a CVSS score of 10.0 and…</description><category>Research</category><category>Vulnerability</category><category>Zero-day</category></item>
<item><title>Critical ChatGPT GitHub Connector Flaw Could Allow Attackers to Steal Private Repository Secrets</title><link>https://cybersecuritynews.com/chatgpt-github-connector-flaw/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">u1tid3</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:47:08 GMT</pubDate><description>Cybersecurity News. A critical flaw in ChatGPT’s GitHub integration has the potential to turn a routine repository review into a secret-theft attack. A report published on October 15, 2026, describes a scenario in which manipulated repository instructions allegedly lead an AI…</description><category>Vulnerability</category><category>Supply chain</category><category>AI</category></item>
<item><title>GhostAction Compromises About 1,900 GitHub Accounts, Targets Over 30,000 Repositories</title><link>https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/ghostaction-compromises-about-1900.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">2i4ffb</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:45:10 GMT</pubDate><description>The Hacker News. The credential-theft campaign known as GhostAction has ramped up, targeting more than 30,000 repositories across 3,000 users and organizations. The spike, according to GitGuardian, was observed on October 8 and 9, 2026. &quot;This resulted from compromising the…</description></item>
<item><title>GitHub adopts cheaper AI model to catch secrets developers leave in code</title><link>https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/14/github-secret-detection-model/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">pd4l30</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:26:41 GMT</pubDate><description>Help Net Security. GitHub has trained a credential classifier to improve generic secret detection and reduce false alerts. The new pipeline cut median post-push scan execution time by 86% and model serving costs by more than 98% compared with its previous large language model…</description><category>AI</category></item>
<item><title>Hackers Breach Meta GitHub Repositories, Steal Source Code and Data of 1,500 People</title><link>https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiekFVX3lxTFBiejBtb3E2TmwyNTNqRU9LaVhMUkVEQXZEbHhxdTBlOEtERlhYSzRCcGZnZHdyQVZUcDRTM0Y1czczNkZkQV9pcjhYazhhQ3hBVGRXVW5VRndGQXdqRzZCcWpDZUd3bWhEWEdRQ2YzSWF4anRfZVphVC1R0gF_QVVfeXFMTkhobkFKaENXQ182R0ZJRjEyMndlVTdQVkE0aGFZejFlemxOUEIxUkp2X3VzVkJMME80cnAxTVp6VkxsbU40UmJBaW1hUWpVUzJCZ19hU1p0c2k2UFBHMGJsMWdsWU9fY0tKWVQ5eTdQN1J6dEVYcW1zTzAzV0ZNSQ?oc=5</link><guid isPermaLink="false">1opixn</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:25:56 GMT</pubDate><description>Cybersecurity News. Hackers Breach Meta GitHub Repositories, Steal Source Code and Data of 1,500 People CyberSecurityNews</description><category>Breach</category></item>
<item><title>Hackers Breach Meta GitHub Repositories, Steal Source Code and Data of 1,500 People</title><link>https://cybersecuritynews.com/hackers-breach-meta-github-repositories/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">s5klpn</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:49:41 GMT</pubDate><description>Cybersecurity News. Hackers used an employee’s stolen credentials to access some of Meta’s GitHub repositories, taking product source code and personal information linked to roughly 1,500 people. Most affected individuals are Meta employees in the United States, according to the…</description><category>Breach</category></item>
<item><title>GitHub Tightens npm Publishing After Flaw Left 1,500+ Packages Vulnerable to Hijacking</title><link>https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/github-tightens-npm-publishing-after.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">1qcx72a</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:18:18 GMT</pubDate><description>The Hacker News. GitHub has taken the step of expiring unvalidated npm trusted publishing configurations 48 hours after creation after researchers found that it was possible for an attacker to push new versions of a different user&#39;s package without having to steal their…</description><category>Vulnerability</category><category>Supply chain</category></item>
<item><title>Meta Says Hackers Took Code, Personal Data of 1,500 in GitHub Breach</title><link>https://www.securityweek.com/meta-says-hackers-took-code-personal-data-of-1500-in-github-breach/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">1sh1sy4</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:01:00 GMT</pubDate><description>SecurityWeek. Most of the affected individuals are Meta employees in the United States and they are being offered credit monitoring services.</description><category>Breach</category></item>
<item><title>GitLab Patches Max-Severity Vulnerability CVE-2026-97229</title><link>https://securityaffairs.com/200868/security/gitlab-patches-max-severity-vulnerability-cve-2026-97229.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">kjd62y</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:48:38 GMT</pubDate><description>Security Affairs. GitLab fixed a critical vulnerability with a maximum CVSS score of 10.0 that could let unauthenticated attackers run code on its servers. GitLab has addressed a critical security flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-97229 (CVSS score of 10.0), that could let attackers…</description><category>Vulnerability</category></item>
<item><title>GitLab admins urged to patch critical RCE flaw (CVE-2026-97229)</title><link>https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/13/gitlab-ci-cd-regular-expression-compiler-vulnerability-cve-2026-97229/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">90t0kl</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:19:45 GMT</pubDate><description>Help Net Security (+3 more sources). GitLab is urging users of self-managed instances to patch a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-97229) in its CI/CD Regular Expression Compiler that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on GitLab servers. About CVE-2026-97229 CVE-2026-97229 is…</description><category>Vulnerability</category><category>Research</category><category>Zero-day</category><category>Advisory</category></item>
<item><title>GitLab Patches CVSS 10.0 Flaw That Could Let Unauthenticated Users Run Server Code</title><link>https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/gitlab-patches-cvss-100-flaw-that-could.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">1s82n4q</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:43:37 GMT</pubDate><description>The Hacker News. GitLab has released patches for a maximum-severity security flaw impacting its Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) software that could result in arbitrary code execution. &quot;GitLab has remediated an issue that, under certain conditions, could…</description><category>Vulnerability</category></item>
<item><title>Kimsuky Operation GitPower Uses GitHub to Deliver Malware and Steal Data</title><link>https://cybersecuritynews.com/kimsuky-operation-gitpower/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">12qrsly</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:27:25 GMT</pubDate><description>Cybersecurity News. Kimsuky is using GitHub and other trusted code platforms to deliver malware, run commands, and steal data from Ukrainian experts in diplomacy, security, and international policy. The North Korea-linked group’s Operation GitPower combines targeted emails, fake…</description><category>Malware</category><category>APT</category></item>
<item><title>GitLab fixes critical vulnerability that exposed software environments to sabotage</title><link>https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/gitlab-vulnerability-remote-code-execution/832736/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">us3e06</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:55:57 GMT</pubDate><description>Cybersecurity Dive. The company urged customers to upgrade to the latest versions of its flagship products.</description><category>Vulnerability</category></item>
<item><title>GitLab warns of max severity code execution vulnerability</title><link>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/gitlab-warns-of-max-severity-rce-flaw-in-regex-compiler-engine/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">exbfz6</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:09:09 GMT</pubDate><description>BleepingComputer. GitLab warned users today to immediately patch a maximum-severity vulnerability in the CI/CD Regular Expression Compiler that could let remote attackers run arbitrary code on targeted instances. [...]</description><category>Vulnerability</category></item>
<item><title>GhostAction Attack Escalates By Targeting GitHub Users</title><link>https://opensourcemalware.com/blog/ghostaction-attack-escalates</link><guid isPermaLink="false">1w8mtjq</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 23:55:53 GMT</pubDate><description>OpenSourceMalware. OSM has identified a new evolution of the GhostAction attack, which targets GitHub users via malicious CI workflow files and worm-like behaviour</description><category>Research</category></item>
<item><title>Credential-Stealing GitHub Actions Workflows Planted in Tens of Thousands of Repositories</title><link>https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/credential-stealing-github-actions.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">j3tykw</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:14:28 GMT</pubDate><description>The Hacker News. Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an ongoing credential-theft campaign that has compromised two high-profile open-source maintainer accounts to push a malicious workflow into over 340 repositories. &quot;Using the account of Takashi Kitao, author…</description><category>Supply chain</category></item>
<item><title>StepSecurity Now Inventories AI Agent Skills in Your GitHub Repositories and on Developer Machines</title><link>https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/stepsecurity-now-inventories-ai-agent-skills-in-your-github-repositories-and-on-developer-machines</link><guid isPermaLink="false">1pfqc3c</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:04:03 GMT</pubDate><description>StepSecurity. Inventory the AI agent skills on developer machines and in your GitHub repositories: which agent loads them, what they can execute, and where they came from.</description><category>Research</category><category>AI</category></item>
<item><title>FakeGit malware campaign returns with 17,610 malicious GitHub repos</title><link>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fakegit-malware-campaign-returns-with-17-610-malicious-github-repos/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">iwlrdc</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:10:55 GMT</pubDate><description>BleepingComputer. More than 17,000 fake repositories on GitHub are distributing the SmartLoader malware after the FakeGit campaign reactivated earlier this month to push the StealC infostealer. [...]</description><category>Malware</category></item>
<item><title>Cryptomining botnet hides C2 addresses in GitHub poem, infects over 3,400 servers</title><link>https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/08/poellm-malware-github-poem-ai-servers/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">un44sy</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:24:57 GMT</pubDate><description>Help Net Security. Thousands of hijacked servers have been looking up their command and control (C2) server in a poem posted on GitHub, according to Black Lotus Labs. The malware reading it, dubbed PoeLLM, breaks into exposed AI services and open-source tools, mines…</description><category>Malware</category></item>
<item><title>Cryptomining botnet hides C2 addresses in GitHub poem, infects over 3,400 servers</title><link>https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiiAFBVV95cUxOa2RMWFN4bTFXT1R3aVBnQ0dLckhiLU51Mk1fM2JCcG9yb2VWSjQ0Nkt2MkVhMWtmSnVwX2dTU3Q3YnJLRTFRaGtVa0dFd1N0Qkd1NktpRGhJOUFoZnp0bnA0cV9XbWZnSjZJeG92RURCd2xKdzhMcGNQamhXRFoyN1JhNHhoV3Zj?oc=5</link><guid isPermaLink="false">1gzldz3</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:24:57 GMT</pubDate><description>Help Net Security. Cryptomining botnet hides C2 addresses in GitHub poem, infects over 3,400 servers Help Net Security</description><category>Malware</category></item>
<item><title>GitHub adds AI to catch passwords before a code push</title><link>https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/08/github-push-protection-modernbert/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">1hqhlkw</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:02:11 GMT</pubDate><description>Help Net Security. GitHub has announced an AI detector, developed with Microsoft Applied Sciences, to help prevent developers from uploading passwords and other credentials to code repositories. The ModernBERT-based classifier will expand GitHub’s push protection, which checks…</description><category>AI</category></item>
<item><title>GitHub adds AI to catch passwords before a code push</title><link>https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMigwFBVV95cUxOc181NWNEVVk2QXJVQkdCa1NUZHJMZDl2OHAzeG9FTE5ESnFVWmE2RVgyS1pPbnJHY2ZvTGdQS1NIaTAydUJYQ09ncjh6aGdaVWE0ZUlobk5uc2F2QjFMSzNzczBuaDB4dkVpc1ZHTW9yNzRlYVFwbDJvWDVLakcydG0wVQ?oc=5</link><guid isPermaLink="false">b9v6n4</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:02:11 GMT</pubDate><description>Help Net Security. GitHub adds AI to catch passwords before a code push Help Net Security</description><category>AI</category></item>
<item><title>How to Investigate a GitHub Repo&#39;s Real History</title><link>https://opensourcemalware.com/blog/how-to-investigate-a-github-repos-real-history</link><guid isPermaLink="false">1ht2m50</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>OpenSourceMalware. Learn to reconstruct what actually happened to a compromised repo using timestamps and logs that the person doing the manipulation doesn&#39;t control.</description><category>Research</category></item>
<item><title>Zombie instructions on carefully constructed web pages could trick GitHub Copilot CLI into sharing secrets</title><link>https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/06/zombie-instructions-on-carefully-constructed-web-pages-could-trick-github-copilot-cli-into-sharing-secrets/5301206</link><guid isPermaLink="false">k7gp21</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The Register. Run the CLI in autopilot mode and take your chances</description><category>AI</category></item>
<item><title>GitHub’s ReviewBench puts AI code reviewers to the test</title><link>https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/06/github-reviewbench-ai-code-review-benchmark/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">tf0m5p</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:29:31 GMT</pubDate><description>Help Net Security. GitHub’s ReviewBench measures how well AI code review tools detect problems before software is released. Available in research preview through its website, the benchmark lets users compare review agents and evaluate their own tools. Code review involves…</description><category>AI</category></item>
<item><title>CVE-2026-90970: Critical GitLab AI Gateway Flaw Fixed</title><link>https://securityaffairs.com/200283/hacking/cve-2026-90970-critical-gitlab-ai-gateway-flaw-fixed.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">1i0xxm7</guid><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 10:43:39 GMT</pubDate><description>Security Affairs. GitLab fixes critical AI Gateway flaw that could let authenticated Duo users escape a prompt sandbox and execute commands on self-hosted gateways. GitLab has released patches for a critical vulnerability in its AI Gateway, tracked as CVE-2026-90970 (CVSS…</description><category>Vulnerability</category><category>AI</category></item>
<item><title>GitLab Patches Critical 9.9 AI Gateway Flaw Allowing Command Execution on Self-Hosted Servers</title><link>https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/gitlab-patches-critical-self-hosted-ai.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">fuhspp</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:33:31 GMT</pubDate><description>The Hacker News. A critical flaw in GitLab&#39;s AI Gateway could let a logged-in user with Duo Agent Platform access run commands on the gateway under certain conditions, GitLab said in an advisory. The gateway is the service that connects a GitLab instance to AI models, and…</description><category>Vulnerability</category><category>AI</category></item>
<item><title>GitLab warns of critical RCE vulnerability in AI Gateway service</title><link>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/gitlab-warns-of-critical-rce-vulnerability-in-ai-gateway-service/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">ij7ato</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:20:05 GMT</pubDate><description>BleepingComputer. GitLab warned customers today to immediately patch a critical AI Gateway vulnerability that could let attackers run arbitrary commands on vulnerable instances. [...]</description><category>Vulnerability</category><category>AI</category></item>
<item><title>500,000 Active Credentials Left Exposed on GitHub</title><link>https://www.securityweek.com/500000-active-credentials-left-exposed-on-github/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">1rrm6ur</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:43:56 GMT</pubDate><description>SecurityWeek. Roughly 200,000 of the credentials were exposed after GitHub enabled push protections by default.</description></item>
<item><title>Over 543,000 valid credentials exposed in public GitHub repositories</title><link>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-543-000-valid-credentials-exposed-in-public-github-repositories/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">1870pcr</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:08:34 GMT</pubDate><description>BleepingComputer (+1 more sources). More than 543,000 credentials exposed in public GitHub repositories were still valid in July despite the platform&#39;s security measures to prevent accidental leaks of sensitive data. [...]</description></item>
<item><title>AI Coding Agents Exposed 13,000 Internal Images, Including Billing Records, on GitHub</title><link>https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/ai-coding-agents-exposed-13000-internal.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">crk53z</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:30:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The Hacker News. AI coding agents asked to share screenshots of code changes for review have put internal company images in public GitHub repositories, security company Glow said. Its researchers found more than 13,000 internal images from developers at over 300…</description><category>AI</category></item>
<item><title>The Blue Agent POV: Investigating Multi-Platform Data Exfiltration Across AWS and GitHub</title><link>https://www.wiz.io/blog/blue-agent-data-exfiltration-investigation</link><guid isPermaLink="false">f3wfwh</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:42:40 GMT</pubDate><description>Wiz Research. See how the Blue Agent investigated a multi-platform attack in minutes, following evidence across AWS and GitHub to uncover compromised credentials, stolen source code, and custom data exfiltration tooling</description><category>Research</category></item>
<item><title>Re-Enabled GitHub Actions Expose Thousands of Repositories to Mini Shai-Hulud</title><link>https://socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hulud-actions</link><guid isPermaLink="false">19w523d</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:14:48 GMT</pubDate><description>Socket. Two compromised GitHub Actions were re-enabled with malicious tags intact, exposing thousands of downstream repositories to Mini Shai-Hulud.</description><category>Research</category><category>Supply chain</category><category>Malware</category></item>
<item><title>AI-powered fuzzing with the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent</title><link>https://github.blog/security/application-security/ai-powered-fuzzing-with-the-github-security-lab-taskflow-agent/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">1t6lks1</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:26:12 GMT</pubDate><description>GitHub Security Lab. In this blog post, I explain how to use the new fuzzing taskflow based on the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent AI framework.</description><category>Research</category><category>AI</category></item>
<item><title>GitLab Email Addresses Can Be Weaponized for Supply Chain Attacks</title><link>https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/gitlab-email-addresses-supply-chain-attacks</link><guid isPermaLink="false">2huges</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:53:38 GMT</pubDate><description>Dark Reading. Incoming email addresses automatically assigned to each user on the platform contain highly privileged access tokens that attackers can use.</description><category>Supply chain</category></item>
<item><title>Hundreds of Leaked GitHub App Keys Still Authenticate</title><link>https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/hundreds-leaked-github-app-keys/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5qgq8n</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Infosecurity Magazine. GitGuardian finds 474 leaked GitHub App keys still authenticating, including keys with admin access</description><category>Breach</category></item>
<item><title>Send GitLab an email, push to main</title><link>https://www.aikido.dev/blog/gitlab-email-push-to-main</link><guid isPermaLink="false">lqv2xi</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Aikido Security. GitLab gives you a private email address to create issues. If leaked, anyone who has it can push code, execute CI/CD jobs, and bypass IP restrictions across all of your public and private projects. Category: Research</description><category>Research</category></item>
<item><title>Shai-Hulud Attack Nips Cyber-Firm CrowdSec&#39;s GitHub Data</title><link>https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/shai-hulud-attack-cyber-firm-crowdsec-github-data</link><guid isPermaLink="false">tpssgr</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:22:37 GMT</pubDate><description>Dark Reading. Threat actors stole the contents of 170 private repositories using an OAuth token stolen from a former employee&#39;s computer through the TanStack npm supply chain attack.</description><category>Supply chain</category><category>Malware</category></item>
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