GitHub says unknown attackers have stolen encrypted code-signing certificates for its Desktop and Atom applications after gaining access to some of its development and release planning repositories.

Whether you create your own code-signing certificate, or use a certificate from a certificate authority, it’s easy to give your Windows binaries the seal of approval. If you compile programs on ...

GitHub said unknown intruders gained unauthorized access to some of its code repositories and stole code-signing certificates for two of its desktop applications: Desktop and Atom. Code-signing ...

NVIDIA certificates are being used to sign malware, enabling malicious programs to pose as legitimate and slide past security safeguards on Windows machines. Two of NVIDIA’s code-signing certificates ...

Novel malware is hard enough to detect these days, but malicious code signed with valid digital certificates is even harder to stop. Sporting SSL.com certificates made the malicious code look like ...

Signing code is a critical process for maintaining software integrity and developer trust. On a Windows-based system, Authenticode signing provides assurance after a program or driver has been posted ...

It remains unclear how the threat actor compromised access token used in the breach. Kind of rare to read about a security breach that requires no action. So kudos to Github for good practices. That ...