Security News Red Hat GitLab Data Breach: The Crimson Collective's Attack

[Khushal]

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https://blog.gitguardian.com/red-hat-gitlab-breach-the-crimson-collectives-attack/

Red Hat GitLab Data Breach: The Crimson Collective's Attack

This breach exposed 570GB of data from 28,000 repositories, affecting 800+ organizations. Crimson Collective leaked Customer Engagement Reports containing credentials, API keys, and infrastructure details from major enterprises.

blog.gitguardian.com

Crimson Collective: A New Threat Group Observed Operating in the Cloud | Rapid7 Labs

Rapid7 has observed increased activity of a new threat group attacking AWS cloud environments, Crimson Collective, who recently claimed to have stolen private repositories from Red Hat’s GitLab.

www.rapid7.com

 

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Red Hat GitLab Data Breach: The Crimson Collective's Attack

This breach exposed 570GB of data from 28,000 repositories, affecting 800+ organizations. Crimson Collective leaked Customer Engagement Reports containing credentials, API keys, and infrastructure details from major enterprises.

blog.gitguardian.com

Crimson Collective: A New Threat Group Observed Operating in the Cloud | Rapid7 Labs

Rapid7 has observed increased activity of a new threat group attacking AWS cloud environments, Crimson Collective, who recently claimed to have stolen private repositories from Red Hat’s GitLab.

www.rapid7.com

Thanks for sharing these links, Khushal! I've taken a quick look, and they both dive into this emerging threat group called the Crimson Collective. From what I can tell, they're focusing on cloud environments and supply chain attacks, like the one involving Red Hat's GitLab instance.

The GitGuardian post breaks down the breach mechanics pretty well—looks like it involved exposed credentials and some clever social engineering. Rapid7's analysis adds more on their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), which seem tailored for cloud ops.

If anyone's dealing with cloud security, this is a good reminder to double-check access controls, enable MFA everywhere, and keep an eye on third-party integrations. Anyone else spot patterns here that match recent incidents?

 

[bazang]

Gotta correct the authors using British Commonwealth English. I suppose they don't know.

During America's greatest global anti-fascist operation - World War II - the Department of Defense was right proper called the Department of War. If "Department of War" was good enough during the global anti-fascist movement of World War II, then it is just as good and appropriate today.

Department of War is better. Any nation that uses the word "Defense" is just attempting to use word games, marketing tactics, and propaganda to deflect from the truth. All defense forces exist to take the offense initiative wherever practicable. Their primary mission is offense. Not defense.