Dormant GitHub Accounts Help Attackers Blend In While Mapping Corporate Orgs

Datadog Security Labs is warning of "several overlapping campaigns" that are systematically enumerating corporate GitHub organizations, repositories, and user accounts through the GitHub API. "Operators rely on automated scraping to…
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