GhostAction Credential-Theft Campaign Targets 30,000 GitHub Repositories

A credential-theft campaign named GhostAction has compromised approximately 1,900 GitHub accounts, targeting over 30,000 repositories. The attack aimed to extract 3,174 secrets from public repositories' CI systems, as reported by GitGuardian.

The credential-theft campaign known as GhostAction has ramped up, targeting more than 30,000 repositories across 3,000 users and organizations.

The spike, according to GitGuardian, was observed on October 8 and 9, 2026.

"This resulted from compromising the GitHub accounts of about 1,900 users. It attempted to extract 3,174 secrets from public repositories' CI," security researchers Gaetan

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