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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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Your valid credentials are the breach.

Technical analysis of a coordinated GitHub Actions workflow compromise across 5,561 repositories, with detection guidance for audit log and EDR telemetry.

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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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Workflows are code, not config

CI workflow modification executes under repository trust. The control surface is the file. The boundary is the weakest identity allowed to merge.

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The extension on your dock just shipped malware

A compromised VSCode extension reached GitHub. Breakdown of the trust boundary that failed and what developer endpoints actually expose.

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npm was never a trust boundary

Technical analysis of the Shai-Hulud npm supply chain attack hitting 314 packages including echarts-for-react, size-sensor, and timeago.js.

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Shai-Hulud worm compromises 314 npm packages

Shai-Hulud npm worm hits 314 more packages via compromised maintainer accounts. Mechanism, telemetry gaps, and residual exposure analyzed.

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A handle, a token, a SYSTEM shell

MiniPlasma is not a kernel defect. It is the externally visible behaviour of a trust model that confuses reference with verification.

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The patch is the payload

Three critical Linux kernel LPE findings in two weeks, one introduced by a fix. The defect is the patch pathway, not the bug.

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The dashboard pushed every critical CVE to GitHub

Technical analysis of a unified vulnerability dashboard pushed to a public GitHub repo, the scanner token blast radius, and what defenders actually see.

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CVE-2026-3854 puts GitHub inside your trust boundary

CVE-2026-3854 enables RCE on GitHub.com and Enterprise Server. Why platform compromise becomes customer compromise across identity, secrets, and artefacts.

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ShinyHunters exfiltrated Cisco source through Trivy

ShinyHunters exfiltrated Cisco source code through Trivy. The scanner inherited the runtime's identity. The runtime held everything.