{"id":240580,"date":"2026-07-10T07:17:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/dormant-github-accounts-help-attackers-blend-in-while-mapping-corporate-orgs"},"modified":"2026-07-10T07:17:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:17:51","slug":"dormant-github-accounts-help-attackers-blend-in-while-mapping-corporate-orgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/dormant-github-accounts-help-attackers-blend-in-while-mapping-corporate-orgs","title":{"rendered":"Dormant GitHub Accounts Help Attackers Blend In While Mapping Corporate Orgs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dormant-github-accounts-help-attackers-blend-in-while-mapping-corporate-orgs2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GitHub ghost accounts and exposed PATs scrape corporate orgs through the API, with select cases cloning private repos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GitHub ghost accounts and exposed PATs scrape corporate orgs through the API, with select cases cloning private repos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}