Bleeping Computer

New Octopus Scanner malware spreads via GitHub supply chain attack

Security researchers have found a new malware that finds and backdoors open-source NetBeans projects hosted on the GitHub web-based code hosting platform to spread to Windows, Linux, and macOS systems ...
Dark Reading

GitHub Supply Chain Attack Uses Octopus Scanner Malware

On March 9, the GitHub Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) received a message from security researcher JJ, who had discovered a set of GitHub repositories actively serving malware. A deep-dive ...
Ars Technica

GitHub besieged by millions of malicious repositories in ongoing attack

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 ...