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Anthropic quietly fixed flaws in its Git MCP server that allowed for remote code execution

Prompt injection for the win Anthropic has fixed three bugs in its official Git MCP server that researchers say can be ...
SiliconANGLE

Okta’s code repositories reportedly breached in cyberattack

Okta Inc. has experienced a data breach in which hackers accessed some of its source code repositories, BleepingComputer reported today. Nasdaq-listed Okta provides an identity management platform ...
Security Systems News

Okta GitHub repositories hacked, source code stolen

YARMOUTH, Maine – It’s been a hard year for security at identity and access management company Okta, with its most recent data breach incident causing the company to lose its source code to threat ...
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 ...

Target's dev server offline after hackers claim to steal source code

Hackers are claiming to be selling internal source code belonging to Target Corporation, after publishing what appears to be ...
TechCrunch

Google’s Cloud Source Repositories gets better search tools

Google today announced an update to Cloud Source Repositories, its recently relaunched Git-based source code repository, that brings a significantly better search experience to the service. This new ...
TechSpot

More than 100,000 GitHub repositories found spreading malicious packages

Facepalm: GitHub serves as a colossal hub for software development, hosting nearly half a billion code projects created by hundreds of millions of developers worldwide. Given its extensive reach and ...

Kilo launches AI-powered Slack bot that ships code from a chat message

Kilo Code, an open-source AI coding startup backed by GitLab cofounder Sid Sijbrandij, launched Kilo for Slack to turn Slack threads into code changes and GitHub pull requests using cloud agents and a ...
InfoQ

Google Releases New Code Search in Beta in Revamped Cloud Source Repositories

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...
Threat Post

Octopus Scanner Sinks Tentacles into GitHub Repositories

At least 26 different open-source code repositories were found to be infected with an unusual attack on the open-source software supply chain. The Octopus Scanner malware, which targets the Apache ...
Network World

SHA-1 collision can break SVN code repositories

A recently announced SHA-1 collision attack has the potential to break code repositories that use the Subversion (SVN) revision control system. The first victim was the repository for the WebKit ...