micksmix

há 2 mesesdiscuss

This is also a good reminder to scan CI logs, not just source code.

Shameless plug: I work on Kingfisher, an Apache 2.0 OSS secret scanner and validator written in Rust, that can also map blast radius and revoke many creds:

<https://github.com/mongodb/kingfisher>

It can scan repos, history, and artifacts and validate many findings against provider APIs, as well as revoke many exposed tokens directly from the CLI. Also generates a blast-radius/access-map view so you can see what a leaked credential could reach.

Install:

  brew install kingfisher
  # or
  uv tool install kingfisher-bin

Scan a local path:

  kingfisher scan /path/to/scan --access-map --view-report

Or scan a GitHub/GitLab repo directly:

  kingfisher scan https://github.com/path/to/repo.git --access-map --view-report

micksmix

há 5 mesesdiscuss

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micksmix

há 9 mesesdiscuss

I'm curious how Kingfisher would do against the proprietary dataset: https://github.com/mongodb/kingfisher

Any chance you could try and share results? Full disclosure, I built Kingfisher

micksmix

há 10 mesesdiscuss

Loved this “lead bullets” framing, especially the parts on taint checking, scanners, and pre-processing/sampling logs. One practical add-on to the "Sensitive data scanners" section is verification: can you tell which candidates are actually live creds?

We’ve been working on an open source tool, Kingfisher, that pairs fast detection (Hyperscan + Tree-Sitter) with live validation for a bunch of providers (cloud + common SaaS) so you can down-rank false positives and focus on the secrets that really matter. It plugs in at the chokepoints this post suggests: CI, repo/org sweeps, and sampled log archives (stdin/S3) after a Vector/rsyslog hop.

Examples:

  kingfisher scan /path/to/app.log --only-valid
  kingfisher scan --s3-bucket my-logs --s3-prefix prod/2025/09/

Baselines help keep noise down over time.

Repo: https://github.com/mongodb/kingfisher (Apache-2.0)

Disclosure: I help maintain Kingfisher.

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