Scanning 7.25M Public Repositories on China's Largest Git Platform for Secrets

Posted by kernelrocks 15 hours ago

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Comment by gosen 10 hours ago

Surprised the gap is that small! 3.64 vs 3.11 per 1k repos

I'd have expected Gitee to be way worse with no scanning partnerships at all.. would be curious to see GitHub in that table, to know how much push protection actually changes that number

Comment by nitroedge 14 hours ago

So what happens if someone uses some of these credentials and enjoys free AI for as long as they are active? Just curious if this is is criminally enforced now and what the penalties have been?

I remember there was a site awhile ago that listed Ollama instances which were made open to the public and had the # of tokens/sec throughput beside each one.

Comment by dorianmariecom 15 hours ago

same on github or gitlab etc

Comment by poly2it 14 hours ago

They compare this in the article:

  Platform  | Repos scanned | Verified-live credentials | Per 1K repos
  ----------+---------------+---------------------------+-------------
  Bitbucket |    ~2,600,000 |                     6,212 |         2.39
  GitLab    |    ~5,600,000 |                    17,430 |         3.11
  Gitee     |     7,256,531 |                    26,400 |         3.64

Comment by LoganDark 14 hours ago

I wonder if this is because of providers scanning those platforms more than they scan Gitee, or the platforms themselves notifying the providers. Fairly sure that GitHub, for example, supports spotting certain live credentials on push and immediately notifying the platform to revoke it. And plenty of providers also watch the open web for live tokens and revoke them immediately.

Comment by owlninja 14 hours ago

From the article

> It has no public equivalent of the platform-vendor secret-scanning partnerships that have become standard on GitHub.