MalTotal: Cost-Effective and Language-Agnostic Malicious Code Poisoning Detection for Millions of Repositories

The widespread adoption of open source software OSS has introduced significant security risks, with malicious code poisoning attacks increasingly targeting public package registries and open-source platforms. Existing detection approaches, including heuristic-, learning-, and LLM-based methods,...

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...