{"id":10853,"date":"2026-11-12T08:11:37","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T08:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/attacker-used-4837-hijacked-github-accounts-to-run-a-ci-secret-stealer-in-1806-repositories\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T08:11:37","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T08:11:37","slug":"attacker-used-4837-hijacked-github-accounts-to-run-a-ci-secret-stealer-in-1806-repositories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/attacker-used-4837-hijacked-github-accounts-to-run-a-ci-secret-stealer-in-1806-repositories\/","title":{"rendered":"Attacker Used 4,837 Hijacked GitHub Accounts to Run a CI Secret Stealer in 1,806+ Repositories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bStarting Tuesday, an attacker used stolen credentials for 4,837 GitHub accounts to plant a secret stealer in repositories those accounts could write to, according to Aikido Security, a security software company.<\/p>\n<p>The stealer is built to take the secrets and cloud credentials that a repository&#8217;s CI workflows can reach. It ran in at least 1,806 repositories, where the attacker has likely collected\u00a0Starting Tuesday, an attacker used stolen credentials for 4,837 GitHub accounts to plant a secret stealer in repositories those accounts could write to, according to Aikido Security, a security software company.<\/p>\n<p>The stealer is built to take the secrets and cloud credentials that a repository&#8217;s CI workflows can reach. It ran in at least 1,806 repositories, where the attacker has likely collected\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bStarting Tuesday, an attacker used stolen credentials for 4,837 GitHub accounts to plant a secret stealer in repositories those accounts could write to, according to Aikido Security, a security software company. The stealer is built to take the secrets and cloud credentials that a repository&#8217;s CI workflows can reach. It ran in at least 1,806&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/attacker-used-4837-hijacked-github-accounts-to-run-a-ci-secret-stealer-in-1806-repositories\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Attacker Used 4,837 Hijacked GitHub Accounts to Run a CI Secret Stealer in 1,806+ Repositories<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}