Over 5,500 GitHub Repositories Infected in ‘Megalodon’ Supply Chain Attack
More than 5,500 GitHub repositories were infected with malware in a supply chain attack that relies on automated commits, security researchers warn.
The campaign, dubbed Megalodon, relies on GitHub Actions workflows containing a payload designed to steal credentials, keys, tokens, and other secrets.
The workflows, SafeDep says, were injected through over 5,700 malicious commits pushed to the impacted repositories within a six-hour window, on May 18.
According to the cybersecurity firm, the attac...
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