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In a six-hour window on May 18, 2026, an automated campaign pushed malicious GitHub Actions workflows into 5,561 repositories using credentials harvested by infostealers. We break down the attack chain, the workflow_dispatch dormancy trick, and CI detection.
OX Security disclosed a DPRK-aligned campaign that abused Hugging Face as a malware host and data-exfiltration backend, using public repos to serve second-stage payloads and private datasets to receive stolen developer secrets.
A repository named Open-OSS/privacy-filter impersonated OpenAI's release, copied its model card verbatim, and shipped a loader.py that pulled an infostealer. It reached #1 trending with ~244,000 downloads before removal.
The Snowflake customer breaches of 2024 were not a Snowflake compromise. Infostealer logs, shared credentials, and absent MFA did the damage, from Ticketmaster to AT&T.
Researchers tracked a PyPI campaign publishing malicious packages under the mexalz and related account names, targeting Python developers with infostealers.
Three PyPI packages impersonating Alibaba's AI Labs SDK exfiltrated .gitconfig data from developer machines in a regionally targeted 2025 espionage campaign.
In November 2024 the Hellcat ransomware group breached Schneider Electric's Atlassian Jira via Lumma infostealer credentials. We unpack the SaaS supply-chain anatomy and the project-tracker as data target.
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