Shai-Hulud’s Reach Just Grew to 469 Credential Locations. Here’s What That Means

In early August, GitGuardian researchers found that a recent Shai-Hulud infostealer worm variant had evolved to scan for credentials across 469 locations across developer environments, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tooling, cloud configurations, and even AI tool configs.Earlier variants of the infostealer worm only checked 189 paths. The jump says a lot. Attackers have

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