Over 5 Million Misconfigured Git Web Servers Found Exposing Secrets Online
ID: b1969fd9-b1f5-52f8-82c1-2f7d9edfc164
STIX ID: report--b1969fd9-b1f5-52f8-82c1-2f7d9edfc164
Feed Name: GBHackers
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**Executive summary:** A 2026 Mysterium VPN study found ~4.96 million web servers exposing .git repository metadata worldwide, including ~252,733 servers leaking .git/config files with deployment credentials; this misconfiguration risks source-code theft, credential compromise, and supply-chain attacks and is concentrated in major cloud-hosting regions (notably the United States).
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