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AI workflows shifting risk from code to credentials and tokens

March 30, 2026The Hacker News

The Hacker News quotes GitGuardian’s Eric Fourrier arguing AI tooling is expanding the attack surface by proliferating tokens and machine identities, making credential remediation the core security problem rather than code defects.

AI isn’t making code safer. It’s expanding the attack surface.
28.65M secrets were exposed in 2025 as AI workflows expanded tokens, APIs, and machine identities.
Risk has shifted from code to credentials.
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