Developer laptops are the credential store attackers are picking through in 2026, GitGuardian announces Endpoint Protection

GitGuardian announces Developer Endpoint Protection to detect, inventory, and remediate plaintext credentials and non-human identity artifacts on developer and privileged workstations. The release frames a series of recent supply-chain and SaaS compromises—including a worm that compromised >300 npm/PyPI packages and multiple credential-harvesting campaigns—as evidence that developer endpoints and AI coding agents are primary attack surfaces, and describes features (scanning via MDM, redaction, vault migration, honeytokens, SOC/SIEM integration) intended to reduce blast radius and speed recovery.