GhostAction Crosses Paths With PolinRider: Inside the October Escalation
GhostAction pushed 72,026 commits to 22,964 repos in nine days, now targeting CI runners and developer machines with a launcher copied from PolinRider.
Responding to php2shell PHP Vulnerability When You Don’t Know What Secrets Are Deployed
On Oct. 21, 2026, PHP fixed a vulnerability named php2shell by Calif. Pre-auth RCE under default configurations, confirmed on common CMS, webmail, e-commerce, file sharing, and database administration applications. A PHP server also stores and uses credentials, so this is a secret theft vector.
Railway October 2026 Incident: Treat Every Environment Variable as Exposed
Railway's security incident may have exposed decrypted customer environment variables. Pull and scan yours with GitGuardian to know what to rotate first.
The campaign that never stopped: tracking GhostAction from 2025 to 2026
The GhostAction supply chain campaign hit 772 public GitHub repositories between Aug. 31 and Sept. 30, 2026, targeting 2,577 secrets. Between Oct 8-9 a new burst hit 30k more, and this time the workflows ran.
GitHub App Private Keys: 474 Leaked Keys Exposed
GitGuardian tested thousands of leaked GitHub App private keys and found 474 valid ones, some with admin access to entire organizations. CDC and BuildBuddy were among those affected. See the findings.
Machine-Speed Credential Abuse: What the ChainDrop npm Worm Changes
ChainDrop hijacked 444 npm packages and 2B monthly downloads via a Claude Code hook. AI agents have collapsed the gap between credential theft and abuse
Inside the LiteLLM hack: 153GB, 433,909 Files, 2,488 Organizations
Attackers dumped everything they harvested from LiteLLM builds during a 40-minute window in March. Here is what is inside and what it says about where secrets live.
Mini Shai-Hulud's Latest Wave: 280 New Places It Hunts for Your Secrets
A new Mini Shai-Hulud wave hit keyv and 800+ npm packages. The malware now scans 469 secret locations, including AI agents, crypto wallets, and CI/CD tools.
Four Credential-Harvesting Campaigns Hit Open Source Ecosystems in Two Weeks
The pace is not slowing down. Between May 18 and June 1, 2026, four distinct supply chain campaigns swept through npm, PyPI, Crates.io, GitHub Actions, and Composer.
Grafana and GitHub Breached: The Risk When Private Code Leaks
Code from GitHub and Grafana is in criminal hands. Secrets buried inside could open doors no one is thinking of protecting yet, and AI will make hunting 0-days in that private code faster than ever.
Mini Shai-Hulud: A persistent supply-chain worm
A self-replicating worm is actively compromising packages with 3M+ weekly downloads, hijacking tokens from CI/CD pipelines, and bypassing trusted publishing protections.
@bitwarden/cli - GitGuardian Views on helloworm00
GitGuardian analysis of the @bitwarden/cli compromise: GitHub used as C2, new Cloudflare exfiltration domain found, linked to April 22 Checkmarx KICS compromise via Dependabot.
