A single hardcoded password is like leaving a digital landmine. Still, developers remain trapped in a false sense of security.

The attack starts with seemingly legitimate GitHub projects — like making Telegram bots for managing bitcoin wallets or tools for computer games.

For some affected companies, Copilot could be prompted to return confidential GitHub archives that contain intellectual property, sensitive corporate data, access keys, and tokens, the company said.

Some of these repositories were thought to have been made private due to security concerns, such as those containing private tokens and secret keys from GitHub, HuggingFace, and OpenAI.

Most concerning for enterprise security leaders: 70% of secrets leaked in 2022 remain active today, creating an expanding ...

Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is exposing the contents of more than 20,000 private GitHub repositories from companies including Google, Intel, Huawei, PayPal, IBM, Tencent and, ironically, ...

Google Gemini offers free Code Assist for individual users, bringing AI coding assistance to smaller developers too. Gemini also surpasses GitHub Copilot with 180,000 code completions per month and a ...

close to 5 times the number of requests the free GitHub Copilot plan offers. The model powering Code Assist for individuals has a 128,000-token context window, which Google says is over four times ...