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#4 Dark Reading general May 26, 2026 at 19:47 UTC

Feeding Frenzy: 'Megalodon' Malware Infects Thousands of GitHub Repos

By Rob Wright

AI Summary

A supply chain campaign named 'Megalodon' pushed malicious commits to more than 5,500 GitHub repositories within a six-hour window, targeting developer credentials and secrets embedded in repos. The attack's speed and scale — thousands of repositories poisoned in half a day — demonstrates the outsized risk of automated supply chain attacks against open source infrastructure. Security teams should audit recent commits in dependencies and enforce secret scanning across their GitHub organizations.

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