Millions of users of GitHub, the premier online platform for sharing open-source software, rely on stars to establish their ...

GitHub says that when other users would download any of the 26 projects, the malware would behave like a self-spreading virus and infect their local computers.

The use of GitHub gave the malware-as-a-service (MaaS) a reliable and easy-to-use platform that’s greenlit in many enterprise networks that rely on the code repository for the software they develop.

Researchers use the OpenSSF Scorecard to measure the security of the 50 most popular generative AI large language model projects on GitHub.

GitHub is now also a CVE CNA and can issue its own CVE numbers for bugs disclosed in projects hosted on the platform.

Both Azure DevOps and GitHub are powerful tools for developer teams that need to facilitate communication, ensure collaboration and manage their projects.