CircleCI: Malware stole GitHub OAuth keys, bypassing 2FA

Software development service company CircleCI has published its incident report on a breach that happened in December. CircleCI revealed an engineer's laptop was successfully infected with a yet-to-be-named information-stealing Trojan, which was used to steal an engineer's session cookie. The...

Malware Attack on CircleCI Engineer's Laptop Leads to Recent Security Incident

DevOps platform CircleCI on Friday disclosed that unidentified threat actors compromised an employee's laptop and leveraged malware to steal their two-factor authentication-backed credentials to breach the company's systems and data last month. The CI/CD service CircleCI said the "sophisticated...

Threat Source newsletter (Jan. 12, 2023): Did ChatGPT write our newsletter?

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. We tried to get ChatGPT to write this weeks newsletter but it was at capacity, so youll have to stick with us for another week. Or maybe thats just what the robots want you to think, you be the judge. The one big thing This week Talos...

Hackers Using Fake CircleCI Notifications to Hack GitHub Accounts

GitHub has put out an advisory detailing what may be an ongoing phishing campaign targeting its users to steal credentials and two-factor authentication 2FA codes by impersonating the CircleCI DevOps platform. The Microsoft-owned code hosting service said it learned of the attack on September 16,...

CircleCI Configuration Detected

CircleCI is a continuous integration service available as a Software as a Service SaaS based application or as a private instance and which is used to build and test software projects. By defining a configuration file named .circleci/config.yml in their source code repositories, developers can...

Dep-Scan - Fully Open-Source Security Audit For Project Dependencies Based On Known Vulnerabilities And Advisories. Supports Both Local Repos And Container Images. Integrates With Various CI Environments Such As Azure Pipelines, CircleCI, Google CloudBuild

dep-scan is a fully open-source security audit tool for project dependencies based on known vulnerabilities, advisories and license limitations. Both local repositories and container images are supported as input. The tool is ideal for CI environments with built-in build breaker logic. If you hav...

Backdoor Found in Codecov Bash Uploader

Developers have discovered a backdoor in the Codecov bash uploader. Its been there for four months. We dont know who put it there. Codecov said the breach allowed the attackers to export information stored in its users continuous integration CI environments. This information was then sent to a...

Shopify: CircleCI token in github repo allows for access to sensitive build information

While looking through some Shopify Github repos I came across the following CircleCI token: ca84774a88598f639b174d498c219163e04adbb2 in the js-buy-sdk repo. curl https://circleci.com/api/v1.1/me?circle-token=ca84774a88598f639b174d498c219163e04adbb2 returns information about the user which confirm...

Nextcloud: nextcloud-snap CircleCI project has vulnerable configuration which can lead to exposing secrets

Summary: CircleCI allows projects to configure whether builds will run as a result of a pull request from a fork, and also whether these fork PRs have access to the secrets stored in the parent repo's CircleCI settings. When both settings are enabled, and the repo associated with the project allo...