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GhostAction GitHub Attack: How to Check If Your Repos Are Compromised (2026)

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A campaign called GhostAction has compromised roughly 1,900 GitHub accounts and planted a credential-stealing workflow in more than 30,000 repositories. If you maintain anything on GitHub — especially if you got a mysterious new workflow file called security-audit.yml or github_actions_security.yml — you need to check your repos this weekend. Not next week. This weekend. This … Read more