{"id":13165,"date":"2026-05-26T20:13:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/megalodon-malware-infects-thousands-github-repos\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T20:13:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:13:51","slug":"megalodon-malware-infects-thousands-github-repos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/megalodon-malware-infects-thousands-github-repos\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeding Frenzy: &#8216;Megalodon&#8217; Malware Infects Thousands of GitHub Repos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Feeding Frenzy: &#8216;Megalodon&#8217; Malware Infects Thousands of GitHub Repos<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>In just six hours, the campaign quietly pushed thousands of malicious commits to more than 5,500 GitHub repositories, stealing credentials, developer secrets, and more.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Rob Wright<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/application-security\/megalodon-malware-infects-thousands-github-repos\">Go to gbhackers.com<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeding Frenzy: &#8216;Megalodon&#8217; Malware Infects Thousands of GitHub Repos In just six hours, the campaign quietly pushed thousands of malicious commits to more than 5,500 GitHub repositories, stealing credentials, developer secrets, and more. Rob Wright Go to gbhackers.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[261],"class_list":["post-13165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darkreading","tag-darkreading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13165"}],"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=13165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}