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...

Malicious code in btc-api-node (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: checkmarx f59f6e40fe31bd4d5d4aa5da8bc0d032e2bbff9166104dc707c2987f953a5d93 Lazarus Group targeting blockchain and cryptocurrency companies by exploiting software supply chains through malicious npm packages and social engineering...

Secrets, Secrets Are No Fun. Secrets, Secrets (Stored in Plain Text Files) Hurt Someone

Secrets are meant to be hidden or, at the very least, only known to a specific and limited set of individuals or systems. Otherwise, they aren't really secrets. In personal life, a secret revealed can damage relationships, lead to social stigma, or, at the very least, be embarrassing. In a...

Malicious code in binance-price (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: checkmarx 421081a4101ed61796fd72e7dec62cafa098a1d01934298a2ef82ef7187c4934 Lazarus Group targeting blockchain and cryptocurrency companies by exploiting software supply chains through malicious npm packages and social engineering...

Malicious code in cache-vue (npm)

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MAL-2023-659 Malicious code in other-web3 (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: checkmarx 5fd32cf3ace29e6d712dc9711ce1fc6ce3af43ba9439e86b8f4d37756a79af7f Lazarus Group targeting blockchain and cryptocurrency companies by exploiting software supply chains through malicious npm packages and social engineering...

Malicious code in price-record (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: checkmarx 3b87630cf8eb8594e67451df7fae7627d35da7c1f67a44b1751201766dbe54a0 Lazarus Group targeting blockchain and cryptocurrency companies by exploiting software supply chains through malicious npm packages and social engineering...

Malicious code in price-fetch (npm)

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Malicious code in vue-audit (npm)

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New Supply Chain Attack Exploits Abandoned S3 Buckets to Distribute Malicious Binaries

In what's a new kind of software supply chain attack aimed at open source projects, it has emerged that threat actors could seize control of expired Amazon S3 buckets to serve rogue binaries without altering the modules themselves. "Malicious binaries steal the user IDs, passwords, local machine...

MAL-2023-172 Malicious code in chart-vxe (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: checkmarx 002bd97e07b258e0171a9659dd1196fa1fde9398bb98fd5ac8213b966f9e40df Lazarus Group targeting blockchain and cryptocurrency companies by exploiting software supply chains through malicious npm packages and social engineering...

Malicious code in elliptic-helper (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: checkmarx 3f5aa19fd478d27d6a061c40dbabd597ef510b0bc122de0b4da84de18f478059 Lazarus Group targeting blockchain and cryptocurrency companies by exploiting software supply chains through malicious npm packages and social engineering...

Adversaries increasingly using vendor and contractor accounts to infiltrate networks

Cisco Talos Incident Response Talos IR has repeatedly observed attackers targeting and using compromised vendor and contractor accounts VCAs during recent emergency response engagements. While high-profile software supply chain compromise events garner significant media attention e.g., the recent...

PyPI Implements Mandatory Two-Factor Authentication for Project Owners

The Python Package Index PyPI announced last week that every account that maintains a project on the official third-party software repository will be required to turn on two-factor authentication 2FA by the end of the year. "Between now and the end of the year, PyPI will begin gating access to...

Design/Logic Flaw

Rekor's goals are to provide an immutable tamper resistant ledger of metadata generated within a software projects supply chain. A malformed proposed entry of the intoto/v0.0.2 type can cause a panic on a thread within the Rekor process. The thread is recovered so the client receives a 500 error...

CVE-2023-33199 malformed proposed intoto v0.0.2 entries can cause a panic in Rekor

Rekor's goals are to provide an immutable tamper resistant ledger of metadata generated within a software projects supply chain. A malformed proposed entry of the intoto/v0.0.2 type can cause a panic on a thread within the Rekor process. The thread is recovered so the client receives a 500 error...

CVE-2023-33199 malformed proposed intoto v0.0.2 entries can cause a panic in Rekor

Rekor's goals are to provide an immutable tamper resistant ledger of metadata generated within a software projects supply chain. A malformed proposed entry of the intoto/v0.0.2 type can cause a panic on a thread within the Rekor process. The thread is recovered so the client receives a 500 error...