Home » Article shared » The Hacker News Ubuntu-Maker Canonical’s GitHub Account Gets Hacked An unknown hacker yesterday successfully managed to hack into the official GitHub account of Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux project and created 11 new empty repositories. It appears that the cyberattack was, fortunately, just a “loud” defacement attempt rather than a “silent” sophisticated supply-chain attack to distribute modified malicious versions of the open-source

The Hacker News Ubuntu-Maker Canonical’s GitHub Account Gets Hacked An unknown hacker yesterday successfully managed to hack into the official GitHub account of Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux project and created 11 new empty repositories. It appears that the cyberattack was, fortunately, just a “loud” defacement attempt rather than a “silent” sophisticated supply-chain attack to distribute modified malicious versions of the open-source

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Ubuntu-Maker Canonical’s GitHub Account Gets Hacked

An unknown hacker yesterday successfully managed to hack into the official GitHub account of Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux project and created 11 new empty repositories.

It appears that the cyberattack was, fortunately, just a “loud” defacement attempt rather than a “silent” sophisticated supply-chain attack to distribute modified malicious versions of the open-source Via Salman, Khwaja

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