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Attacker Uses AI-Written PowerShell Script to Map a Company's Network

Researchers say an unknown intruder ran a script that looks machine-generated to catalogue users, computers and domain controllers inside a Windows network.

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Dormant GitHub Accounts Quietly Mapped Thousands of Organisations for Months

Criminals used more than 50 sleeping accounts to probe GitHub's public data systems in what security researchers call a sustained reconnaissance campaign.

3 min read
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Old, Silent GitHub Accounts Are Being Used to Quietly Map Companies

Datadog Security Labs says several overlapping scraping campaigns are cataloguing corporate GitHub organisations using dormant 'ghost' accounts and stolen tokens.

3 min read
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Criminals Are Using GitHub's Own Public Tools to Map Your Company Before They Strike

Researchers at Datadog tracked months of quiet, automated snooping across GitHub that blends perfectly into normal traffic, and most organisations never notice it happening.

3 min read
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