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327 unknown users Third-Party Breach (September 2025)

πŸ“… 2025-09-01 🏒 GitHub Workflows
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Incident Details

The GhostAction Campaign: 3,325 Secrets Stolen Through Compromised GitHub Workflows. On September 5, 2025, GitGuardian discovered GhostAction, a massive supply chain attack affecting 327 GitHub users across 817 repositories. Attackers injected malicious workflows that exfiltrated 3,325 secrets, including PyPI, npm, and DockerHub tokens via HTTP POST requests to a remote endpoint. As a security researcher at GitGuardian, Gaetan is pioneering innovations in secret detection. He uses his offensive security and Red Team background to improve our approach to cybersecurity. Guillaume is a Cybersecurity Researcher at GitGuardian. He holds a PhD in networking. He likes looking at data and crafting packets. He co-maintains Scapy. And he still remembers what AT+MS=V34 means!. Third-party company: GitHub Workflows.

Technical Details

Initial Attack Vector
Compromise of third-party service provider / vendor relationship
Vendor / Product
GitHub Workflows
Supply Chain Attack
βœ… Confirmed third-party / vendor compromise

Timeline

  1. 2025-09-01 Breach occurred
  2. 2025-09-05 Publicly disclosed