Compromised GitHub Accounts Used as Botnet Without User Awareness
Developers with leaked credentials have their GitHub accounts silently hijacked to run botnet workflows that exhaust CI minutes and scan for more credentials. Users receive no proactive alert about new workflow creation or anomalous execution — only a resource-exhaustion email after the damage is done. Recovery requires securing multiple accounts and devices simultaneously with no guided remediation path.
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