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#3 Dark Reading general October 26, 2026 at 18:01 UTC

'Gheist' Weaponizes GitHub Tokens to Steal Cloud Secrets

By Elizabeth Montalbano

AI Summary

A threat actor tracked as 'Gheist' is conducting an ongoing supply chain attack targeting developer repositories, harvesting GitHub tokens and cloud credentials from thousands of projects. The campaign underscores the persistent risk of secrets exposure in source code repositories and the weaponization of CI/CD pipeline access tokens.

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Relevance score: 79.0/100

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