Dormant GitHub Accounts Help Attackers Blend In While Mapping Corporate Orgs

Jul 09, 2026 - 21:30
Dormant GitHub Accounts Help Attackers Blend In While Mapping Corporate Orgs
Datadog Security Labs is warning of "several overlapping campaigns" that are systematically enumerating corporate GitHub organizations, repositories, and user accounts through the GitHub API. "Operators rely on automated scraping tooling with custom or legitimate-sounding user agents, leveraging GitHub 'ghost' accounts that are often years old, or compromised OAuth tokens and personal