The Team PCP Snowball Effect: A Quantitative Analysis
Supply chain attacks cascade through ecosystems in ways traditional metrics hardly capture. GitGuardian evaluates the PCP Team incidents and finds damage spread to thousands of public targets.
Supply chain attacks cascade through ecosystems in ways traditional metrics hardly capture. GitGuardian evaluates the PCP Team incidents and finds damage spread to thousands of public targets.
Learn how to detect compromise, assess your exposure to the LiteLLM supply chain attack, and use GitGuardian to orchestrate rapid incident response and secret remediation.
The Trivy story is moving quickly, and the latest reporting makes one thing clear: this is no longer just a GitHub Actions tag hijack. What started as a compromise of trivy-action, setup-trivy, and the v0.69.4 release has expanded into malicious Docker Hub images.
Plaintext secrets on developer machines create real supply chain risk. Honeytokens provide early detection while stronger identity-based controls are rolled out.
GitGuardian partnered with Google to answer: what happens when private keys leak? Using Certificate Transparency, we mapped about 1M leaked keys to 140k certificates. Result: 2,622 were valid as of September 2025, exposing major organizations. Our disclosure campaign achieved 97% remediation.
Early 2026, Moltbot a new AI personal assistant went viral. GitGuardian detected 200+ leaked secrets related to it, including from healthcare and fintech companies. Our contribution to Moltbot: a skill that turns secret scanning into a conversational prompt, letting users ask "is this safe?"
On November 24, a new wave of the Shai-Hulud supply chain attack emerged. The threat actors exfiltrate stolen credentials directly to GitHub repositories created with compromised tokens.
The threat GitGuardian has long-anticipated is now a reality: criminal groups are executing systematic attacks targeting hardcoded credentials and over-permissive IAM configurations. The situation escalated when Shiny Hunters and Crimson Collective formed an alliance to coordinate efforts.
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.
On September 5, 2025, GitGuardian discovered GhostAction, a massive supply chain attack affecting 327 GitHub users across 817 repositories. Attackers injected malicious workflows that exfiltrated 3,325 secrets, including PyPI, npm, and DockerHub tokens via HTTP POST requests to a remote endpoint.
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 exfiltrated credentials and reconstructed a fuller scope of exposure.