A new backdoor was observed using the Github Gist service and the Slack messaging system as communication channels with its masters, as well as targeting a very specific type of victim using a ...

Since its release back in 2013, Slack has grown into one of the leading team messaging services, boasting 2.7 million active daily users. Part of the app’s success has been its robust chatbot ...

Researchers at Trend Micro say they've found new malware that uses Slack channels, GitHub, and the file.io file-sharing site to steal data from Windows PCs. The previously unknown malware is part of a ...

GitHub is an incredibly powerful tool for sharing source code, and its value to the modern hacker can’t be overstated. But there’s at least one downside to effortlessly sharing your source: it’s now ...

You know the drill: The words you are looking for might be in Slack, or GitHub, or Google Drive, or Google Sheets, or Zendesk, or … the list goes on. Searching across these silos is a common ...

If you perform a very specific query in the search field of online code repository Github, where many Slack bot projects are stored, you can get info that potentially lets you access a trove of ...

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