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GhostAction Hits 30,000 GitHub Repos: Rotate Your Secrets Now

The GhostAction campaign compromised 1,900 GitHub accounts and targeted 30,000 repositories on October 8–9, exposing CI/CD secrets and AI API keys, byteiota reported. The publication urged affected developers to check whether their credentials were exposed and to rotate them immediately.

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GhostAction compromised 1,900 GitHub accounts and targeted 30,000 repositories on October 8–9. Check if your CI/CD secrets and AI API keys were exposed — and rotate them now.

The post GhostAction Hits 30,000 GitHub Repos: Rotate Your Secrets Now appeared first on byteiota .

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