Tom's Hardware on MSN

Invisible malicious code attacks 151 GitHub repos and VS Code

The technique exploits Unicode Private Use Area characters, which render as zero-width whitespace in virtually every code ...

Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories

Researchers say they’ve discovered a supply-chain attack flooding repositories with malicious packages that contain invisible code, a technique that’s flummoxing traditional defenses designed to ...
The Hacker News

GlassWorm Attack Uses Stolen GitHub Tokens to Force-Push Malware Into Python Repos

GlassWorm campaign injects malware into GitHub Python repos using stolen tokens since March 8, 2026, exposing developers to ...

GlassWorm malware hits 400+ code repos on GitHub, npm, VSCode, OpenVSX

The GlassWorm supply-chain campaign has returned with a new, coordinated attack that targeted hundreds of packages, ...

Glassworm Malware Campaign Uses Invisible Code To Infect Hundreds Of GitHub Repos

The GlassWorm malware made news when it pivoted from exclusively targeting Windows users to also targeting Mac OS users in January, and in the time since, the malware campaign has spread across at ...
VentureBeat

Open-source code is everywhere; GitHub expands security tools to help secure it

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Whether directly or indirectly, nearly all organizations depend on ...
Ars Technica

Twitter source code was leaked on GitHub shortly after Musk’s layoff spree

Portions of Twitter’s source code recently appeared on GitHub, and Twitter is trying to force GitHub to identify the user or users who posted the code. GitHub disabled the repository on Friday shortly ...