Preamble
In 2025 and 2026, we watched a pattern play out across the industry. Attackers stopped going after production servers directly and started targeting the automation that deploys to them. Compromised developer credentials, a modified workflow file, and suddenly every secret in a CI/CD environment is streaming to an attacker-controlled endpoint. We saw this play out across incidents involvin...
The rise of CI/CD pipeline attacks reflects a broader shift in cybersecurity threats, where automation—once a force multiplier for development—has become a force multiplier for adversaries. The *cicd-abuse-detector* tool addresses a critical gap: traditional code review struggles to catch subtle, platform-specific exploits disguised as legitimate DevOps changes. By combining regex-based signal extraction with LLM reasoning, the tool surfaces patterns that might otherwise evade detection until it...