GhostAction Compromises About 1,900 GitHub Accounts, Targets Over 30,000 Repositories
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GhostAction Compromises About 1,900 GitHub Accounts, Targets Over 30,000 Repositories

The Hacker News · Oct 15, 2026

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GhostAction Compromises About 1,900 GitHub Accounts, Targets Over 30,000 Repositories
Security October 15, 2026

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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