Stolen GitHub tokens drain secrets from private repositories
Daily Cyber News: Stolen GitHub tokens drain secrets from private repositories
An active campaign is using stolen GitHub tokens to extract secrets from private repositories. More than thirteen thousand five hundred malicious branches were recovered across over 850 compromised accounts. The attacker plants a workflow that encodes repository secrets, writes them into a run log, downloads that log through GitHub’s own A P I, and quickly deletes the evidence.
Key context: This activity can reach production credentials and cloud roles without contacting an outside server that defenders could simply block.
Additional detail: For leaders, the message is that private code storage isn’t a security boundary when valid tokens are stolen.
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