GitHub acknowledged on Monday that during a cyberattack in December 2022, threat actors stole three digital certificates used for its Desktop and Atom applications.
The business also stated in a blog post that it came to the conclusion that there was no risk to the GitHub.com services or illegal alterations to the projects after looking into the mishap.
The statement by Alexis Wales, GitHub’s vice president of security operations, states that “a set of encrypted code signing certificates were exfiltrated; however, the certificates were password-protected, and we have no indication of nefarious use.”
“We will invalidate the exposed certificates used by the GitHub Desktop and Atom applications as a precautionary step read the complete article GitHub Confirms Signing Certificates Stolen in Cyber Attack Revokes Them.
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