{"id":12968,"date":"2026-05-19T07:03:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T07:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/github-actions-supply-chain-attack-html\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T07:03:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T07:03:31","slug":"github-actions-supply-chain-attack-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/github-actions-supply-chain-attack-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular GitHub Action Tags Redirected to Imposter Commit to Steal CI\/CD Credentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Popular GitHub Action Tags Redirected to Imposter Commit to Steal CI\/CD Credentials<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>In yet another software supply chain attack, threat actors have compromised the popular GitHub Actions workflow, actions-cool\/issues-helper, to run malicious code that harvests sensitive credentials and exfiltrates them to an attacker-controlled server.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every existing tag in the repository has been moved to point to an imposter commit that does not appear in the action&#8217;s normal commit history,<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/github-actions-supply-chain-attack.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular GitHub Action Tags Redirected to Imposter Commit to Steal CI\/CD Credentials In yet another software supply chain attack, threat actors have compromised the popular GitHub Actions workflow, actions-cool\/issues-helper, to run malicious code that harvests sensitive credentials and exfiltrates them to an attacker-controlled server. &#8220;Every existing tag in the repository has been moved to point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-12968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}