Survey of Supply Chain Attacks

The Atlantic Council has a released a report that looks at the history of computer supply chain attacks. Key trends from their summary: 1. Deep Impact from State Actors: There were at least 27 different state attacks against the software supply chain including from Russia, China, North Korea, and...

CVE-2020-5252

CVE-2020-5252 concerns the command-line Python package Safety. Reports describe a low-severity issue where two Python-related characteristics permit a malicious package to poison-pill or obfuscate other packages, allowing bypass of Safety’s detection routines. This is said to occur when Safety ru...