Honeytokens on the Developer Workstation: When Cleanup Takes Time
Plaintext secrets on developer machines create real supply chain risk. Honeytokens provide early detection while stronger identity-based controls are rolled out.
2,622 Valid Certificates Exposed: A Google-GitGuardian Study Maps Private Key Leaks to Real-World Risk
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.
OpenClaw (Moltbot) Personal Assistant Goes Viral – And So Do Your Secrets
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?"
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Shai-Hulud 2.0 Exposes Over 33,000 Unique Secrets [Updated Nov, 27]
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.
How Cybercriminal Organizations Weaponize Exposed Secrets
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.
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.
The GhostAction Campaign: 3,325 Secrets Stolen Through Compromised GitHub Workflows
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.
The Nx "s1ngularity" Attack: Inside the Credential Leak
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.
Exploiting Public APP_KEY Leaks to Achieve RCE in Hundreds of Laravel Applications
Laravel APP_KEY leaks enable RCE via deserialization attacks. Collaboration with Synacktiv scaled findings to 600 vulnerable applications using 260K exposed keys from GitHub. Analysis reveals 35% of exposures coincide with other critical secrets including database, cloud tokens, and API credentials.
Fresh From The Docks: Uncovering 100,000 Valid Secrets in DockerHub
This post details the methodology used to scan 15 million Docker images, uncovering a staggering 100,000 valid secrets, including AWS, GCP, and GitHub tokens belonging to Fortune 500 companies. This emphasizes the critical need for improved security practices in containerized environments.
Compromised tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action: A look at publicly leaked secrets
On March 14, 2025, the popular GitHub action tj-actions/changed-files was compromised, exposing secrets in CI logs. GitGuardian's analysis identified leaked secrets like GitHub tokens, AWS keys, and more.
