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Your GitHub commits were never trustworthy

Megalodon compromised 55,000 GitHub repositories. A technical breakdown of the trust boundary that failed and what repository owners must now verify.

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Megalodon hijacked 55,000 GitHub repos via token replay

Megalodon compromised 55,000+ GitHub repositories through PAT harvesting, pull_request_target abuse, and OAuth scope inheritance. Technical breakdown.

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Malicious commits breached 5,561 repositories

5,561 GitHub repos received malicious CI/CD commits disguised as bot maintenance. The failure was identity enforcement, not exploit complexity.

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CISA pushed passwords to a public repo

A top cyberdefense agency published credentials in a public GitHub repository. A control analysis of what failed and what must now be true.

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The agency was the breach.

A US cybersecurity agency published digital keys to a public GitHub repository. The exposure defines the failure class. Recovery requires rotation.