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Gheist: 13,500 secret-dumping workflows planted with stolen GitHub tokens — audit yours in 5 minutes
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Gheist: 13,500 secret-dumping workflows planted with stolen GitHub tokens — audit yours in 5 minutes

DEV Community: infosec·Sam LABBE·about 12 hours ago
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While everyone watched LiteLLM, a quieter campaign spent five weeks doing something worse: taking stolen GitHub tokens and committing a secret-dumping workflow into every repository they could reach — 13,500 planted branches across 850+ compromised accounts , personal projects and private enterprise repos included. Wiz published the full autopsy yesterday. The campaign is called Gheist, it dumps your org secrets, your cloud credentials, and — the line that made me write this — it specifically hunts AI provider keys: Anthropic, Hugging Face, Groq, NVIDIA . Your agents' keys, straight out of your CI.

This post is the mechanics and the audit.…

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