CircleCI Security Incident: How a Malware Attack on An Engineer’s Laptop Led to Chaos

On Friday, DevOps platform CircleCI revealed that unidentified threat actors compromised an employee’s laptop and stole their two-factor authentication credentials to compromise the company’s systems and data. CI/CD service CircleCI said the “sophisticated attack” occurred on December 16, 2022, and its antivirus software could not detect the malware. According to CircleCI’s chief technology officer, Rob […]

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