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> Megalodon GitHub Attack Targets 5,561 Repos with Malicious CI/CD Workflows

[SOURCE] The Hacker News [DATE: 22/05/2026 11:55] [LANGUAGE: EN]
Megalodon GitHub Attack Targets 5,561 Repos with Malicious CI/CD Workflows
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new automated campaign called Megalodon that has pushed 5,718 malicious commits to 5,561 GitHub repositories within a six-hour window. "Using throwaway accounts and forged author identities (build-bot, auto-ci, ci-bot, pipeline-bot), the attacker injected GitHub Actions workflows containing base64-encoded bash payloads that exfiltrate CI
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