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Detection Engine Updates Version 2.143

calendar icon   Release Date: July 15, 2025

This release introduces new detectors for GitLab incoming mail tokens, Coze personal access tokens, Tavus API keys, and more. It also includes significant improvements to existing detectors and analyzers, such as those for Zendesk, Sendinblue, and Algolia, enhancing detection accuracy and performance.

New Detectors

New Checkers These checkers are implemented to verify the detected secrets, adding another layer of security and ensuring their validity and correct application:

  • Coze Personal Access Token
  • Tavus API Key
  • Heroku Platform Key
  • Tableau Cloud PAT
  • Notion Integration Token v2
  • Salesforce OAuth2

Detector Improvements

  • Google OAuth2 Keys – Improved precision for Google OAuth2 detector.
  • Zendesk Token – ZendeskTokenAnalyzer has been rewritten in Rust for improved performance.
  • Sendinblue Key – SendinblueSecretAnalyzer has been rewritten in Rust.
  • Generic High Entropy Secret – No longer considers IDs in ServiceNow migration files as secrets.
  • Algolia Keys – AlgoliaKeysSecretAnalyzer has been rewritten in Rust.
  • Fastly Personal Token – FastlySecretAnalyzer has been rewritten in Rust.
  • [Hugging Face User Access] – Migrated analyzer to Rust for improved performance.

Engine Enhancements

  • All JWT detectors will now only catch signed JWTs, enhancing security.

Detection Engine Updates Version 2.141

calendar icon   Release Date: June 16, 2025

This release introduces several new detectors for Kubernetes user certificates, NVIDIA API keys, and various other services such as Alchemy, OpenRouter, and Duffel. We've also made improvements to existing detectors for enhanced detection accuracy and reduced false positives.

New Detectors

New Checkers These checkers are implemented to verify the detected secrets, adding another layer of security and ensuring their validity and correct application:

  • Kubernetes User Certificate with Port
  • Alchemy API Key v2
  • OpenRouter API Key
  • Duffel API Key
  • Apify Token
  • Jina API Key
  • Deno Account Token
  • Resend API Key
  • VKontakte Access Token
  • Fireworks AI API Key

Detector Improvements

Detection Engine Updates Version 2.136 + 2.137

calendar icon   Release Date: April 29, 2025

As AI adoption accelerates across organizations, securing API keys for platforms like Perplexity AI and Anthropic becomes increasingly critical. This update introduces specialized detectors for these emerging AI services alongside improvements to existing detectors and Azure cloud components.

New Detectors

Detector Improvements

  • LDAP CredentialsChecker Upgrade: Improved the LDAP checker to better distinguish between connection errors and invalid credentials. Updated ldap_credentials_assignment_with_dn to remove false positives.
  • JSON Web TokenDetector Upgrade: The detector will now detect all JWTs regardless of their contents.
  • Cloudinary API KeysDetector Upgrade: Extended charset of cloudinary_api_key_config to improve recall.
  • Auth0 KeysDetector Upgrade: Improved recall of the detector to detect more domains.
  • Claude API KeyDetector Upgrade: Refined regex for Claude API keys.
  • Riot Games API KeyChecker Updated: Banlist checker will be deleted.
  • LINE Notify TokenChecker Updated: Banlist checker as the service has been discontinued.

Detection Engine Updates Version 2.134

calendar icon   Release Date: March 19, 2025

Bringing enhanced accuracy and broader coverage:

New Detectors

Detector Improvements

  • LINE Messaging OAuth2 – Removed false positives from the LINE Messaging OAuth2 detector.
  • OpenAI API Key – Fixed a bug in the analyzer for OpenAI API Key that prevented it from reporting threads:* scopes.

Detector changes

  • FCM API Key – Removed FCM API Key checker since its API was removed.

Miscellaneous

  • Add User Agent GitGuardian in HTTPClient class used by analyzers.

Detection Engine Updates Version 2.133

calendar icon   Release Date: February 27, 2025

This update introduces several critical security detectors for popular services, notably expanding OpenAI detection capabilities with new Project API Key, Admin API Key, and improved Service Account detection patterns. The addition of 1Password Service Account Token detection is equally significant, as both these services represent high-value security targets. OpenAI API keys provide access to powerful AI capabilities and could lead to substantial usage charges if compromised, while 1Password tokens could potentially expose entire password vaults containing sensitive credentials across an organization.

New Detectors

Improved Detection

  • OpenAI Service Account – Expanded pattern coverage for better identification.
  • Rails Master Key – Updated detection rules to minimize false positives.
  • GitHub Tokens – Improved recall and validation for GitHub authentication tokens.
  • Groq API Key – Enhanced detection rules for greater accuracy.
  • Artifactory Token – New checker added to improve detection effectiveness.
  • Generic Passwords – Excluded secrets containing ***** as they are likely false positives.
  • Dropbox Key – Detector group split into Dropbox Key and Dropbox Access Token for improved granularity.
  • FCM API Key – Validity check is no longer available since the API has been removed. While we can no longer retrieve the validity status for FCM secrets, we still detect the keys.

Detection Engine Updates Version 2.131 + 2.132

calendar icon   Release Date: February 11, 2025

New Detectors

Detector Improvements

  • Microsoft Azure Storage Account KeyDetector Upgrade: Removed a false positive from Microsoft Azure Storage Account Key (example from Microsoft documentation).
  • Generic PasswordDetector Upgrade: Removed secrets with ***** as they are likely to be false positives.
  • Groq API KeyDetector Upgrade: Improved recall for Groq API.
  • Netlify TokenChecker Upgrade: Updated checker to match the documentation.

Engine Enhancements

  • Enabled HTTPChecker to function without a base URL.
  • Network caching has been improved in some analyzers, resulting in fewer HTTP calls.

Detection engine releases - Previous versions

Browse all past GitGuardian detection engine releases below, including new and modified detectors.

December 23, 2024

Secrets Detection

December 12, 2024

Secrets Detection

November 18, 2024

Secrets Detection

November 4, 2024

Secrets Detection

October 21, 2024

Secrets Detection

October 7, 2024

Secrets Detection

August 26, 2024

Secrets Detection

Secrets detection engine upgrade to v2.120: Enhance recall and coverage while expanding the range of detectable secrets with updated detectors.

Note concerning the reCAPTCHA Key detector: Due to changes in the behavior of some Google APIs, we are no longer able to ensure the validity of reCaptcha keys. As this detector could be quite "noisy" the validity of the keys was a mandatory prerequisite in the detection flow and this can no longer be the case. We have however improved this detector to be as efficient as possible.

August 14, 2024

Secrets Detection

  • Secrets detection engine upgrade to version 2.117: Enhance recall and coverage while expanding the range of detectable secrets with new and updated detectors.

July 15, 2024

Secrets Detection

June 17, 2024

Secrets Detection

June 4, 2024

Secrets Detection

May 20, 2024

Secrets Detection

April 23, 2024

Secrets Detection

April 15, 2024

Secrets Detection

April 8, 2024

Secrets Detection

March 18, 2024

Secrets Detection