GitHub Actions hack bolsters case for complex binary analysis

A novel attack method on GitHub illustrates yet again why application security (AppSec) teams should be implementing in-depth security measures — beyond what legacy application security testing tools can provide.

The attack, discovered by Praetorian security researcher Adrian Khan, involves GitHub-hosted runners, which are virtual machines that execute jobs in a GitHub Actions workflow. There are two kinds of runners in GitHub Actions, which is one of the biggest continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) services in the market, largely …

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