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Popular GitHub Action Tags Redirected to Imposter Commit to Steal CI/CD Credentials
The Hacker NewsยทMay 19, 2026ยท1 min read
In yet another software supply chain attack, threat actors have compromised the popular GitHub Actions workflow, actions-cool/issues-helper, to run malicious code that harvests sensitive credentials and exfiltrates them to an attacker-controlled server. "Every existing tag in the repository has been moved to point to an imposter commit that does not appear in the action's normal commit history,
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