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An autonomous, Claude‑powered agent named hackerbot‑claw ran a methodical, multi‑vector campaign in late February 2026 that scanned public repositories for misconfigured GitHub Actions workflows, achieved remote code execution in high‑profile projects, and exfiltrated credentials with write...

GitHub has opened a technical preview of Agentic Workflows — a new way to run AI agents inside GitHub Actions that promises to extend repository automation from deterministic CI/CD tasks into a continuous AI paradigm where agents act on events, triage issues, review pull requests, and even...

This month’s GitHub Actions update is a careful, pragmatic move toward making large-scale, heterogeneous CI/CD fleets easier to operate — and safer to run — outside of Kubernetes while extending the platform’s security controls and early access to new OS/tooling images for Windows and macOS...

Microsoft’s security teams have issued an urgent, unambiguous warning: treat the recent Shai‑Hulud 2.0 supply‑chain worm as an active, high‑risk incident and rotate any exposed credentials immediately — including GitHub personal access tokens (PATs), npm tokens, and cloud API keys — because the...

A self‑propagating worm has struck the npm ecosystem, infecting hundreds of JavaScript packages and turning developer machines and CI pipelines into an automated propagation platform that harvests and publishes credentials—an event that elevates the attack surface of modern software supply...

Microsoft’s AKS Automatic is the kind of product that reads like a direct answer to a single question enterprises have been asking for years: how do we keep Kubernetes’ benefits without paying an ever‑rising Kubernetes tax in staff, time, and outages? Background Kubernetes is the default runtime...

Microsoft’s Azure DevOps no longer sits unchallenged as the default CI/CD and ALM suite for every team — in 2025 a broad set of alternatives have matured into real, production-ready choices that often outpace Azure DevOps on ease of setup, GitOps alignment, cloud-native scale, or AI-assisted...

Microsoft has announced that mandatory multi‑factor authentication will soon extend beyond Azure's web consoles to command‑line and programmatic interfaces, forcing a major rethink of developer tooling and automation strategies: starting this enforcement window, any user performing create...

GitHub’s CEO Thomas Dohmke has confirmed he will leave the company at the end of 2025, saying he’s ready to “become a founder again” after steering the developer platform through its most AI‑intensive transformation to date. Background Thomas Dohmke became GitHub’s CEO in late 2021 and has...

GitHub Actions’ relentless pace of innovation shows no signs of slowing, with the latest announcement poised to reshape how developers and organizations manage workflow settings and automation environments. The recent unveiling of new REST APIs and a consequential migration of the...

GitHub Actions users and Windows developers alike should brace for some far-reaching changes beginning this September. With the global popularity of GitHub Actions—GitHub’s industry-leading CI/CD platform—increasingly becoming central to enterprise development and open-source collaboration, even...

Microsoft's GitHub has unveiled GitHub Spark, a groundbreaking addition to the Copilot ecosystem that empowers developers to transform their ideas into fully functional full-stack applications using natural language descriptions. This innovative tool aims to streamline the app development...

The evolution of GitHub Copilot has reached a pivotal moment, shifting its role from an in-editor AI assistant to something far more ambitious: a bona fide coding agent. Announced in tandem with Microsoft Build and described by GitHub’s CEO Thomas Dohmke, this new capability introduces...

A new era in AI-powered software development has dawned with the introduction of the GitHub Copilot coding agent, a tool that promises to transform the day-to-day operations of DevOps teams. This offering marks a significant leap forward, shifting away from the traditional confines of individual...

A new alert from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has intensified the urgency around two critical vulnerabilities now known to be under active exploitation. These additions to the agency’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog are more than simple database entries...

From new zero-days to supply chain software threats, digital defenders find themselves on an ever-accelerating treadmill of risk. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) once again captured the spotlight by adding a fresh vulnerability—CVE-2025-30154, involving the reviewdog...

In a notable update from the world of cybersecurity, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has expanded its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog with the addition of a new vulnerability—CVE-2025-30154. This particular weakness involves a GitHub Action known as the...

Supply chain vulnerabilities continue to remind us that even the most trusted tools in our development toolkit sometimes hide surprises. In this case, a popular GitHub Action—tj‑actions/changed‑files—has been compromised, exposing sensitive secrets such as access keys, GitHub Personal Access...

CISA has recently expanded its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog with two new entries that underscore the persistent threat posed by actively exploited vulnerabilities. While the vulnerabilities detailed in this update may not target Microsoft Windows directly, the implications resonate...