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A single 'git push' could hijack millions of GitHub repositories — and nobody knew for weeks

Sometime in early 2026, a flaw hiding inside one of the most routine actions in software development went live on the world’s largest code-hosting platform. Every time a developer ran git push to send ...
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GitHub’s critical flaw let anyone with push access execute code on servers holding millions of private repos

A single git push command. That is all it would have taken for someone with write access to a repository on GitHub Enterprise Server to execute arbitrary code on the underlying host machine, according ...
InfoQ

How GitHub Improved Code Push Processing Reliability

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Dany Lepage discusses the architectural ...
Bleeping Computer

Gitloker attacks abuse GitHub notifications to push malicious OAuth apps

Threat actors impersonate GitHub's security and recruitment teams in phishing attacks to hijack repositories using malicious OAuth apps in an ongoing extortion campaign wiping compromised repos. The ...
TheServerSide

Do a git reset and push to undo previous local git commits example

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. I published an article recently on how to perform a hard git reset, but one of the questions ...
Bleeping Computer

GitHub comments abused to push malware via Microsoft repo URLs

A GitHub flaw, or possibly a design decision, is being abused by threat actors to distribute malware using URLs associated with Microsoft repositories, making the files appear trustworthy. While most ...