{"id":14199,"date":"2026-07-10T07:03:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T07:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/10\/dormant-github-accounts-help-attackers-html\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T07:03:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T07:03:31","slug":"dormant-github-accounts-help-attackers-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/10\/dormant-github-accounts-help-attackers-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Dormant GitHub Accounts Help Attackers Blend In While Mapping Corporate Orgs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Dormant GitHub Accounts Help Attackers Blend In While Mapping Corporate Orgs<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Datadog Security Labs is warning of &#8220;several overlapping campaigns&#8221; that are systematically enumerating corporate GitHub organizations, repositories, and user accounts through the GitHub\u00a0API.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Operators rely on automated scraping tooling with custom or legitimate-sounding user agents, leveraging GitHub &#8216;ghost&#8217; accounts that are often years old, or compromised OAuth tokens and personal<\/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\/07\/dormant-github-accounts-help-attackers.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dormant GitHub Accounts Help Attackers Blend In While Mapping Corporate Orgs Datadog Security Labs is warning of &#8220;several overlapping campaigns&#8221; that are systematically enumerating corporate GitHub organizations, repositories, and user accounts through the GitHub\u00a0API. &#8220;Operators rely on automated scraping tooling with custom or legitimate-sounding user agents, leveraging GitHub &#8216;ghost&#8217; accounts that are often years old, [&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-14199","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\/14199"}],"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=14199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}