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

This guest post by independent security researcher Ben Zimmermann was developed in collaboration with the Kingfisher team at MongoDB. Ben specializes in large-scale credential exposure research across public source-hosting platforms.TL;DR: I scanned 7,256,531 public repositories on Gitee (China's largest indigenous Git hosting platform), using both TruffleHog and Kingfisher, and found 26,400 unique verified-live credentials. Findings included an active organization-admin credential for a major e...

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