A scan of billions of files from 13 percent of all GitHub public repositories over a period of six months has revealed that over 100,000 repos have leaked API tokens and cryptographic keys, with ...

Hackers used the secrets stolen in the recent Nx supply chain attack to publish over 6,700 private repositories publicly.

The leaked token, accidentally embedded by the company’s employee in a public repository, might have provided an attacker with unrestricted access to the company’s GitHub Enterprise server. Thus, ...

An Argo CD vulnerability allows API tokens with even low project-level get permissions to access API endpoints and retrieve ...

Attackers abused GitHub Actions workflows to siphon off thousands of credentials from hundreds of npm and PyPI repositories.

A new supply chain attack on GitHub, dubbed 'GhostAction,' has compromised 3,325 secrets, including PyPI, npm, DockerHub, ...

On August 26, 2025, Nx, the popular build platform with millions of weekly downloads, was compromised with credential-harvesting malware. Using GitGuardian's monitoring data, we analyzed the ...

On September 5, 2025, GitGuardian discovered GhostAction, a massive supply chain attack affecting 327 GitHub users across 817 ...

GitHub has announced it will be bringing its secret scanning capability to more users in a bid to help public repository admins detect leaked secrets in their repositories before a breach happens. The ...

Private and deleted GitHub repositories are not as secure as users might assume. Data from deleted forks, deleted repositories, and private repositories can still be accessed, often indefinitely. This ...