CISA and OpenSSF Release Framework for Package Repository Security

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...

CVE-2024-23332

The Notary Project is a set of specifications and tools intended to provide a cross-industry standard for securing software supply chains by using authentic container images and other OCI artifacts. An external actor with control of a compromised container registry can provide outdated versions o...

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The Notary Project is a set of specifications and tools intended to provide a cross-industry standard for securing software supply chains by using authentic container images and other OCI artifacts. An external actor with control of a compromised container registry can provide outdated versions o...

CVE-2024-23332

CVE-2024-23332 affects the Notary Project: client configurations using permissive trust policies can enable rollback attacks if a compromised registry serves outdated artifacts. The connected sources describe that artifact publishers can set signature expiry and revoke certificates to keep artifa...

CVE-2024-23332 Client configured with permissive trust policies susceptible to rollback attack in Notary Project

The Notary Project is a set of specifications and tools intended to provide a cross-industry standard for securing software supply chains by using authentic container images and other OCI artifacts. An external actor with control of a compromised container registry can provide outdated versions o...

Three Ways To Supercharge Your Software Supply Chain Security

Section four of the "Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity" introduced a lot of people in tech to the concept of a "Software Supply Chain" and securing it. If you make software and ever hope to sell it to one or more federal agencies, you have to pay attention to this. Even if y...

Patching Perforce perforations: Critical RCE vulnerability discovered in Perforce Helix Core Server

Microsoft discovered, responsibly disclosed, and helped remediate four vulnerabilities that could be remotely exploited by unauthenticated attackers in Perforce Helix Core Server “Perforce Server”, a source code management platform largely used in the videogame industry and by multiple...

27 Malicious PyPI Packages with Thousands of Downloads Found Targeting IT Experts

An unknown threat actor has been observed publishing typosquat packages to the Python Package Index PyPI repository for nearly six months with an aim to deliver malware capable of gaining persistence, stealing sensitive data, and accessing cryptocurrency wallets for financial gain. The 27 package...

CISA, NSA, and Partners Release New Guidance on Securing the Software Supply Chain

Today, CISA, the National Security Agency NSA, and partners released Securing the Software Supply Chain: Recommended Practices for Software Bill of Materials Consumption. Developed through the Enduring Security Framework ESF, this guidance provides software developers and suppliers with industry...

Malicious NuGet Packages Caught Distributing SeroXen RAT Malware

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new set of malicious packages published to the NuGet package manager using a lesser-known method for malware deployment. Software supply chain security firm ReversingLabs described the campaign as coordinated and ongoing since August 1, 2023, while linki...

New Webinar: 5 Must-Know Trends Impacting AppSec

Modern web app development relies on cloud infrastructure and containerization. These technologies scale on demand, handling millions of daily file transfers – it's almost impossible to imagine a world without them. However, they also introduce multiple attack vectors that exploit file uploads wh...

North Korean Actors Behind Active Exploitation of TeamCity Vulnerability

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The North Korean threat actors Lazarus and its subgroup Andariel are actively exploiting the CVE-2023-42793 vulnerability, which is an authentication bypass vulnerability, after successful exploitation, ...

GitHub Repositories Hit by Password-Stealing Commits Disguised as Dependabot Contributions

A new deceptive campaign has been observed hijacking GitHub accounts and committing malicious code disguised as Dependabot contributions with an aim to steal passwords from developers. "The malicious code exfiltrates the GitHub project's defined secrets to a malicious C2 server and modify any...

The mystery of the CVEs that are not vulnerabilities

A researcher specializing in Software Supply Chain security named Dan Lorenc recently raised an interesting topic on LinkedIn. 138 new vulnerabilities in open-source projects were all entered the same day to the CVE database. To understand what the problem is there are a few things youll need to...

Critical GitHub Vulnerability Exposes 4,000+ Repositories to Repojacking Attack

A new vulnerability disclosed in GitHub could have exposed thousands of repositories at risk of repojacking attacks, new findings show. The flaw "could allow an attacker to exploit a race condition within GitHub's repository creation and username renaming operations," Checkmarx security researche...

Malicious npm Packages Aim to Target Developers for Source Code Theft

An unknown threat actor is leveraging malicious npm packages to target developers with an aim to steal source code and configuration files from victim machines, a sign of how threats lurk consistently in open-source repositories. "The threat actor behind this campaign has been linked to malicious...

Developers Beware: Malicious Rust Libraries Caught Transmitting OS Info to Telegram Channel

In yet another sign that developers continue to be targets of software supply chain attacks, a number of malicious packages have been discovered on the Rust programming language's crate registry. The libraries, uploaded between August 14 and 16, 2023, were published by a user named "amaperf,"...

Over a Dozen Malicious npm Packages Target Roblox Game Developers

More than a dozen malicious packages have been discovered on the npm package repository since the start of August 2023 with capabilities to deploy an open-source information stealer called Luna Token Grabber on systems belonging to Roblox developers. The ongoing campaign, first detected on August...

Carderbee Attacks: Hong Kong Organizations Targeted via Malicious Software Updates

A previously undocumented threat cluster has been linked to a software supply chain attack targeting organizations primarily located in Hong Kong and other regions in Asia. The Symantec Threat Hunter Team, part of Broadcom, is tracking the activity under its insect-themed moniker Carderbee. The...

2022 Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities

SUMMARY The following cybersecurity agencies coauthored this joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA: United States: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, National Security Agency NSA, and Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Australia: Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyb...