GitHub investigating crypto-mining campaign abusing its server infrastructure

ronjor · Apr 4, 2021

By Catalin Cimpanu April 2, 2021

Code-hosting service GitHub is actively investigating a series of attacks against its cloud infrastructure that allowed cybercriminals to implant and abuse the company’s servers for illicit crypto-mining operations, a spokesperson told The Record today.
The attacks have been going on since the fall of 2020 and have abused a GitHub feature called GitHub Actions, which allows users to automatically execute tasks and workflows once a certain event happens inside one of their GitHub repositories.
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