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How security teams are getting credential visibility into developer endpoints

Attackers are increasingly targeting developer endpoints to steal credentials, as demonstrated by supply chain attacks like Megalodon, TrapDoor, and Miasma. GitGuardian's new Developer Endpoint Protection aims to give security teams visibility into secrets on developer machines.

read1 min views1 publishedJun 18, 2026

As we noted in our earlier analysis, attackers already know secrets are on your developers’ machines, the only question is whether security teams do. The supply chain attack calendar of 2026 has been relentless. Megalodon backdoored 5,500 GitHub repositories in six hours. TrapDoor spread across npm, PyPI, and Crates.io simultaneously, planting persistence inside AI coding assistant config files. Miasma compromised 32 official Red Hat packages by abusing GitHub’s trusted publishing. Each campaign shared the same … More

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