GitHub Actions holds potentially malicious workflows for approval

GitHub Actions now automatically holds potentially malicious workflows in public repositories for manual approval before execution, blocking supply chain attacks that use compromised credentials to steal CI/CD secrets. The protection requires write-access collaborators to approve suspicious runs via authenticated web session before workflows execute.

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