Security News > 2025 > April > Recent GitHub supply chain attack traced to leaked SpotBugs token

2025-04-03 14:46
A cascading supply chain attack on GitHub that targeted Coinbase in March has now been traced back to a single token stolen from a SpotBugs workflow, which allowed a threat actor to compromise multiple GitHub projects. [...]
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