{"id":8817,"date":"2026-07-09T19:11:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/dormant-github-accounts-help-attackers-blend-in-while-mapping-corporate-orgs\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T19:11:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:11:52","slug":"dormant-github-accounts-help-attackers-blend-in-while-mapping-corporate-orgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/dormant-github-accounts-help-attackers-blend-in-while-mapping-corporate-orgs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dormant GitHub Accounts Help Attackers Blend In While Mapping Corporate Orgs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bDatadog Security Labs is warning of &#8220;several overlapping campaigns&#8221; that are systematically enumerating corporate GitHub organizations, repositories, and user accounts through the GitHub\u00a0API.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Operators rely on automated scraping tooling with custom or legitimate-sounding user agents, leveraging GitHub &#8216;ghost&#8217; accounts that are often years old, or compromised OAuth tokens and personal\u00a0Datadog Security Labs is warning of &#8220;several overlapping campaigns&#8221; that are systematically enumerating corporate GitHub organizations, repositories, and user accounts through the GitHub\u00a0API.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Operators rely on automated scraping tooling with custom or legitimate-sounding user agents, leveraging GitHub &#8216;ghost&#8217; accounts that are often years old, or compromised OAuth tokens and personal\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bDatadog Security Labs is warning of &#8220;several overlapping campaigns&#8221; that are systematically enumerating corporate GitHub organizations, repositories, and user accounts through the GitHub\u00a0API. &#8220;Operators rely on automated scraping tooling with custom or legitimate-sounding user agents, leveraging GitHub &#8216;ghost&#8217; accounts that are often years old, or compromised OAuth tokens and personal\u00a0Datadog Security Labs is warning of&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/dormant-github-accounts-help-attackers-blend-in-while-mapping-corporate-orgs\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dormant GitHub Accounts Help Attackers Blend In While Mapping Corporate Orgs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8818,"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\/8817"}],"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=8817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}