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ThreatPhishing & impersonation

Fake GitHub / GitLab developer account security phishing — impersonates GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or npm claiming unauthorized access, account compromise, or suspended account — driving to a credential-harvest page that captures developer credentials giving access to SSH keys, API tokens, private repos, and CI/CD secrets; Proofpoint 2024: GitHub is the most impersonated developer platform brand; phishing surged 250% after 2023 credential-stuffing campaigns targeting OSS maintainers

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What this tier means

High-confidence threat indicator — phishing, impersonation, BEC, or scam pattern. Strong contributor to the trash decision.

How Gorganizer detects this

Phishing emails impersonating GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or npm claiming that the developer's account has been accessed without authorization, suspended, or compromised — driving to a credential-harvest page that captures the developer's login credentials, giving the attacker access to SSH keys, personal access tokens, private repositories, CI/CD pipeline secrets, and npm publish rights. Key facts: (1) Proofpoint 2024: GitHub is the most impersonated developer platform brand in email phishing campaigns; phishing targeting developer accounts surged 250% in the months following major 2023 credential-stuffing campaigns that leaked developer credentials from multiple breached services; (2) Developer accounts are uniquely high-value targets: a single GitHub account may control SSH keys to production servers, personal access tokens with repo-write and packages-publish scope, private repos containing proprietary code and infrastructure secrets, Dependabot configurations with access to CI/CD tokens, and npm packages downloaded millions of times per week by other developers — supply chain attack potential is enormous; (3) The "account compromised" pretextual hook is highly effective for developers, who are security-aware enough to act on security alerts but busy enough to click quickly without verifying the sender domain; the emails mimic GitHub's exact email format, typography, and "Review the recent sign-in" CTA structure; (4) Legitimate GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket security notifications arrive only from their verified domains (noreply@github.com, gitlab.com, bitbucket.org) and link directly to the platform's security settings — they never direct users to third-party verification pages or request password re-entry outside the official domain. Warning signs: sender not github.com, gitlab.com, bitbucket.org, or npmjs.com; urgency about account deactivation or repository loss; link to non-official credential page; no reference to specific recent security events, commit history, or SSH key fingerprint.

False-positive guard

Every signal in Gorganizer feeds a multi-module score — never a sole verdict. This is a threat-tier signal — it adds a strong contribution to the trash score. The full pipeline still requires convergence across multiple modules + a margin over the safety floor before deletion happens, and Gmail's trash (30-day recovery) is always used — never permanent delete.

About the scoring engine

Gorganizer's scoring engine emits over 1,800 signals across six modules — headers, sender, subject, body, attachments, and structural metadata. Every email is scored by every module independently; the final verdict requires multiple modules to agree and the trash score to beat the safety floor by a margin.

Sacred safety guards — never delete starred emails, replies, calendar invites, receipts/invoices, or attachments — apply unconditionally regardless of any signal.

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