Application Security 500,000 Active Credentials Left Exposed on GitHub Roughly 200,000 of the credentials were exposed after GitHub enabled push protections by default. Ionut ArghireOctober 1, 2026
Cybersecurity Funding GitGuardian Raises $50 Million for Secrets and Non-Human Identity Security The secrets security company has raised more than $100 million since its creation in 2017. SecurityWeek NewsFebruary 11, 2026
Data Protection Thousands of Secrets Leaked on Code Formatting Platforms JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify users exposed credentials, authentication keys, configuration information, private keys, and other secrets. Ionut ArghireNovember 26, 2025
Artificial Intelligence Many Forbes AI 50 Companies Leak Secrets on GitHub Wiz found the secrets and warned that they can expose training data, organizational structures, and private models. Eduard KovacsNovember 10, 2025
Cybersecurity Funding Truffle Security Raises $25 Million for Secret Scanning Engine The investment will fuel the development of Truffle’s enterprise-grade secrets detection, verification, and remediation platform. Ionut ArghireNovember 6, 2025
Application Security GitHub Workflows Attack Affects Hundreds of Repos, Thousands of Secrets A supply chain attack called GhostAction has enabled threat actors to steal secrets and exploit them. Eduard KovacsSeptember 8, 2025
Supply Chain Security Over 6,700 Private Repositories Made Public in Nx Supply Chain Attack The private repositories of hundreds of organizations were published publicly in the second phase of the Nx supply chain attack. Ionut ArghireSeptember 8, 2025
Data Protection Enterprise Secrets Exposed by CyberArk Conjur Vulnerabilities CyberArk has patched several vulnerabilities that could be chained for unauthenticated remote code execution. Eduard KovacsAugust 6, 2025
Data Protection Files Deleted From GitHub Repos Leak Valuable Secrets A security researcher has discovered hundreds of leaked secrets by restoring files deleted from GitHub repositories. Ionut ArghireApril 23, 2025
Data Protection 39 Million Secrets Leaked on GitHub in 2024 GitHub has announced new capabilities to help organizations and developers keep secrets in their code protected. Ionut ArghireApril 3, 2025
Funding/M&A Infisical Banks $2.8M Seed Funding for Secrets Sprawl Security Tech Infisical banks $2.8 million in seed funding as investors continue to bet on companies in the software supply chain security space. Ryan NaraineJuly 5, 2023