Cybercriminals are exploiting GitHub to spread credential-stealing malware through fake repositories, cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has warned. The campaign, dubbed “GitVenom,” involves ...

Main target of the takedown was the youtube-dl project, a Python library that had amassed more than 72k stars on GitHub and was used in many YouTube video ripping tools and services.

GitHub says that when other users would download any of the 26 projects, the malware would behave like a self-spreading virus and infect their local computers.

GitHub projects have been targeted with malicious commits and pull requests, in an attempt to inject backdoors into these projects. Most recently, the GitHub repository of Exo Labs, an AI and ...

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We take a look at some of the open source projects on GitHub created by Microsoft that can help make life easier for IT teams in organizations.

Published September 11, 2020 Written by Owen Hughes Teams users can subscribe to notifications from GitHub repositories they care about and collaborate on ongoing development projects.

Though the site offers the ability to download code via a Web page, to date, the chief way to interact with GitHub projects has been through a command line interface.

Now, pretty much everyone hosts their open source projects on GitHub, including Google, Facebook, Twitter, and even Microsoft---once the bete noire of open source software.