Catch credential stealers on your endpoint fleet

  Release Date: August 10, 2026

Credential stealers do not hunt around a developer machine, they go straight for the handful of files where developers keep their secrets.

Endpoint Protection already gives you a full inventory of the credentials sitting in those files, and it now adds intrusion detection to that same deployment: ggshield plants a decoy AWS credential exactly where the stealers look first. The decoy opens nothing, so nobody has a reason to touch it. The moment someone does, you get an alert that names the compromised endpoint.

What does this mean for you?

• A tripwire on the surface attackers hit first: stealers arrive through malicious packages, trojanized tools, and rogue browser extensions. Whichever way they get in, reading that credential file is their first move, and that move is now what exposes them.
• Alerts with no ambiguity: the decoy has no legitimate use, so any use of it is unauthorized by definition. There is no baseline to learn, no tuning, and no signature list to maintain.
• A last line of defense: if malware has already slipped past your EDR and other endpoint controls, using the decoy still gives it away.
• A named machine to investigate: each event carries the IP address, user agent, and timestamp, and resolves to a specific endpoint and its owner.
• Coverage you can measure: a new Honeytoken protection card in the Endpoints dashboard reports the share of your fleet that is protected and lists the endpoints that are not, so you can drive coverage to completion.
• No new agent to deploy: planting reuses the ggshield binary you already install for scanning and writes a file rather than running a resident process.

Why is this important?

Credentials on developer machines have been a blind spot for a long time. Repository scanning, CI checks, and collaboration tool monitoring only ever see secrets that leave the laptop, while the credentials that stay local are exactly the ones harvesting malware is built to collect. Endpoint Protection brought those credentials into your inventory. It now watches for the theft itself, at the moment it happens, on a surface where most organizations have no detection at all.

For developers, this is invisible. Planting only ever touches its own credential profile and leaves every other profile on the machine untouched.

Start securing your endpoint fleet now!

Honeytoken protection is available now for workspaces with Endpoint Protection on a Business or Enterprise plan. If you already run endpoint scanning, adding it means nothing more than one MDM job to update and one more scope on your service account token.

• Protect endpoints with Honeytokens for how planting works, how to verify it, and how to remove it
• Deploy ggshield at scale with a service account token for the token scopes and MDM job setup
• Monitor coverage for tracking coverage across your fleet
• ggshield honeytoken plant for the full command reference

Enhancements

• Public API: Added the ability to create Personal Access Tokens (PATs) and Service Account Tokens (SATs) programmatically via the API, enabling automated token rotation workflows. Tokens created via the API must have a finite TTL.

Fixes

• Audit Logs: Scans triggered via a Personal Access Token now emit an audit log event.
• Issue Tracking Integration: Fixed the "Edit issue" dialog closing unexpectedly.
• Notifications: Fixed an issue where the team name was not populated for notifiers when the workspace contained more than 100 teams.
• Access Management: Fixed an issue where deactivated members were incorrectly displayed in the grant access dialog.
• GitHub Checkruns integration: Fixed an issue where a disabled detector could still block pull requests.
• JFrog Artifactory Integration: Fixed an issue where the JFrog Container Registry reachability check did not route through ggbridge.
• GitLab Integration: Fixed an issue where GitLab sources appeared as monitored in the integration settings but were not reflected in the perimeter view.