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Beware: GitHub’s Fake Popularity Scam Tricking Developers into Downloading Malware

Apr 10, 2024NewsroomSoftware Security / Supply Chain Attack Threat actors are now taking advantage of GitHub’s search functionality to trick unsuspecting users looking for popular repositories into downloading spurious counterparts that serve malware. The latest assault on the open-source software supply chain involves concealing malicious code within Microsoft Visual Code project files that’s designed to […]

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AI-as-a-Service Providers Vulnerable to PrivEsc and Cross-Tenant Attacks

Apr 05, 2024NewsroomArtificial Intelligence / Supply Chain Attack New research has found that artificial intelligence (AI)-as-a-service providers such as Hugging Face are susceptible to two critical risks that could allow threat actors to escalate privileges, gain cross-tenant access to other customers’ models, and even take over the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. “Malicious […]

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Urgent: Secret Backdoor Found in XZ Utils Library, Impacts Major Linux Distros

Mar 30, 2024NewsroomLinux / Supply Chain Attack Red Hat on Friday released an “urgent security alert” warning that two versions of a popular data compression library called XZ Utils (previously LZMA Utils) have been backdoored with malicious code designed to allow unauthorized remote access. The software supply chain compromise, tracked as CVE-2024-3094, has a CVSS […]

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CISA and OpenSSF Release Framework for Package Repository Security

Feb 12, 2024The Hacker NewsInfrastructure Security / Software Supply Chain The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced that it’s partnering with the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) Securing Software Repositories Working Group to publish a new framework to secure package repositories. Called the Principles for Package Repository Security, the framework aims to establish […]

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Hands-on Review: Myrror Security Code-Aware and Attack-Aware SCA

Introduction The modern software supply chain represents an ever-evolving threat landscape, with each package added to the manifest introducing new attack vectors. To meet industry requirements, organizations must maintain a fast-paced development process while staying up-to-date with the latest security patches. However, in practice, developers often face a large amount of security work without clear […]

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Malicious NPM Packages Exfiltrate Hundreds of Developer SSH Keys via GitHub

Jan 23, 2024NewsroomSoftware Security / Supply Chain Two malicious packages discovered on the npm package registry have been found to leverage GitHub to store Base64-encrypted SSH keys stolen from developer systems on which they were installed. The modules named warbeast2000 and kodiak2k were published at the start of the month, attracting 412 and 1,281 downloads […]

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Sea Turtle Cyber Espionage Campaign Targets Dutch IT and Telecom Companies

Jan 06, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Supply Chain Attack Telecommunication, media, internet service providers (ISPs), information technology (IT)-service providers, and Kurdish websites in the Netherlands have been targeted as part of a new cyber espionage campaign undertaken by a Türkiye-nexus threat actor known as Sea Turtle. “The infrastructure of the targets was susceptible to supply chain […]

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Sea Turtle Cyber Espionage Campaign Targets Dutch IT and Telecom Companies

Jan 06, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Supply Chain Attack Telecommunication, media, internet service providers (ISPs), information technology (IT)-service providers, and Kurdish websites in the Netherlands have been targeted as part of a new cyber espionage campaign undertaken by a Türkiye-nexus threat actor known as Sea Turtle. “The infrastructure of the targets was susceptible to supply chain […]

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Microsoft Warns of New ‘FalseFont’ Backdoor Targeting the Defense Sector

Dec 22, 2023NewsroomThreat Intelligence / Supply Chain Attack Organizations in the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) sector are in the crosshairs of an Iranian threat actor as part of a campaign designed to deliver a never-before-seen backdoor called FalseFont. The findings come from Microsoft, which is tracking the activity under its weather-themed moniker Peach Sandstorm (formerly […]