{
  "id": 13210755,
  "title": "Credential-Stealing GitHub Actions Workflows Planted in Tens of Thousands of Repositories",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/credential-stealing-github-actions-workflows-planted-in-tens-of",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-09T19:14:28.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/credential-stealing-github-actions.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an ongoing credential-theft campaign that has compromised two high-profile open-source maintainer accounts to push a malicious workflow into over 340 repositories. \"Using the account of Takashi Kitao, author of the 18,400-star game engine pyxel, the attacker pushed a malicious workflow to 27 repositories starting at 13:20 UTC,\" StepSecurity",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}