New GitHub Zero-Day Exposed Developer Tokens to Attackers

A github.dev flaw could let attackers steal GitHub OAuth tokens through a one-click attack, exposing private repositories and ...
Dark Reading

35K Malicious Code Insertions in GitHub: Attack or Bug-Bounty Effort?

A hacker going by the handle "Pl0xP" cloned a large number of GitHub repositories and slightly changed the cloned repository names, in a typosquatting effort to impersonate legitimate projects — thus ...
TheServerSide

A quick GitHub SSH clone example

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. To perform a GitHub clone with SSH keys in Git, simply follow these steps: Create an SSH keypair ...
Bleeping Computer

35,000 code repos not hacked—but clones flood GitHub to serve malware

Thousands of GitHub repositories were copied with their clones altered to include malware, a software engineer discovered today. While cloning open source repositories is a common development practice ...
XDA Developers on MSN

A poisoned VS Code extension led to a GitHub breach, and Microsoft owns every link in the chain

Microsoft has had a VS Code extension for a long time, and it finally came back to bite them.
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 ...
TheServerSide

How to git clone a specific branch

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. As you can see, without parameterization, a normal git clone command makes the default main or ...