Coding Agents Copy Your Secrets to a Hidden File. Thousands Are on GitHub

Summary by Cyber Security News7 Nov 2026, 16:06 CET

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Shmulik Cohen and Matan Giladi write: Apiiro research found 2,539 real secrets in 1,994 public GitHub repositories: database passwords, cloud keys, API tokens, SSH root logins. Among them: a database vendor’s own admin-level cloud key, a production Azure Postgres password, a Square production token, and the owner password of a medical-records database. 63 organizations, mostly...

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