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Exposed Git tokens and secrets are being hoovered up by hacker scans

GreyNoise saw a significant increase in scanning activity IPs from Singapore are looking for exposed Git config files, also in Singapore The files could contain sensitive information such as login ...
Bleeping Computer

Hackers ramp up scans for leaked Git tokens and secrets

Threat actors are intensifying internet-wide scanning for Git configuration files that can reveal sensitive secrets and authentication tokens used to compromise cloud services and source code ...
Bleeping Computer

Hackers steal 15,000 cloud credentials from exposed Git config files

A large-scale malicious operation named "EmeraldWhale" scanned for exposed Git configuration files to steal over 15,000 cloud account credentials from thousands of private repositories. According to ...
TheServerSide

How to set a Git username and password in Git config

Repeated prompts to enter your Git username and password are a frustrating annoyance developers can live without. Unfortunately, if your Git installation has not been configured to use a credential ...