Threat intelligence firm Recorded Future has warned that threat actors are increasingly using GitHub services to launch covert cyber-attacks, and urged IT teams to take action.
Its new report, Flying Under the Radar: Abusing GitHub for Malicious Infrastructure, revealed the most popular GitHub services for threat actors.
An analysis of threat intelligence samples between March and November 2023 showed GitHub Raw, GitHub Objects and GitHub Pages were most often used in attacks.
GitHub is used by almost 100 million developers and so represents a potentially large-scale threat if the platform can be successfully abused.
Recorded Future claimed that threat actors use it to blend in with benign network traffic, thus keeping malicious activity hidden.
It added that GitHub services usually remain unblocked in organizations but benefit from high uptime, minimal new account vetting and limited detection possibilities for service providers.
That makes it a popular, low-cost and highly effective platform for command-and-control infrastructure, silent delivery of malware payloads and exfiltration of data, the report claimed.
Organizations need to consider GitHub in their threat modelling, Recorded Future argued.
This Cyber News was published on www.infosecurity-magazine.com. Publication date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 10:15:19 +0000