Code Repositories
Public code repositories are like digital libraries where developers share their work. Just as a burglar might look through a public trash bin or a company's open window to find blueprints, an attacker searches these sites to find technical details, passwords, or clues about how a company's AI systems are built.
Code repositories are centralized platforms like GitHub or GitLab where organizations host source code, AI models, and configuration files. Adversaries monitor these public-facing repositories to perform reconnaissance, identifying the specific AI frameworks, dependencies, and infrastructure configurations used by a target, or to harvest accidentally committed secrets like API keys.
Code repositories serve as version-controlled, often public-facing, storage environments for software artifacts, including AI models, datasets, and agentic system configurations. Adversaries leverage these repositories as a primary reconnaissance vector to map a victim's technical stack, identify third-party dependencies, and extract sensitive metadata or hardcoded credentials. This information facilitates downstream tactical objectives, including the acquisition of public AI artifacts, the discovery of system configurations, and the exploitation of valid accounts or RAG-indexed targets.