The article presents ten lesser-known but highly useful GitHub Actions that can enhance workflow automation, focusing on tasks like YAML validation, markdown link checking, auto-assignment of PRs, commit message linting, dependency caching, Slack notifications, license compliance checking, PR size labeling, security scanning, and Jira integration.
Research shows that GitHub Actions, a popular CI/CD platform, is vulnerable to typosquatting attacks, where malicious actors exploit spelling mistakes in action names to trick developers into running malicious code.
