Infrastructure Laundering: Blending in with the Cloud

Image: Shutterstock, ArtHead. In an effort to blend in and make their malicious traffic tougher to block, hosting firms catering to cybercriminals in China and Russia increasingly are funneling their operations through major U.S. cloud providers. Research published this week on one such outfit --...

Lazarus Group Uses React-Based Admin Panel to Control Global Cyber Attacks

The North Korean threat actor known as the Lazarus Group has been observed leveraging a "web-based administrative platform" to oversee its command-and-control C2 infrastructure, giving the adversary the ability to centrally supervise all aspects of their campaigns. "Each C2 server hosted a...

PlushDaemon APT Targets South Korean VPN Provider in Supply Chain Attack

A previously undocumented China-aligned advanced persistent threat APT group named PlushDaemon has been linked to a supply chain attack targeting a South Korean virtual private network VPN provider in 2023, according to new findings from ESET. "The attackers replaced the legitimate installer with...

Supply Chain Attack Hits Rspack, Vant npm Packages with Monero Miner

Popular npm packages, Rspack and Vant, were recently compromised with malicious code. Learn about the attack, the impact, and how to protect your projects from similar threats...

Rspack npm Packages Compromised with Crypto Mining Malware in Supply Chain Attack

The developers of Rspack have revealed that two of their npm packages, @rspack/core and @rspack/cli, were compromised in a software supply chain attack that allowed a malicious actor to publish malicious versions to the official package registry with cryptocurrency mining malware. Following the...

Ultralytics Supply-Chain Attack

Last week, we saw a supply-chain attack against the Ultralytics AI library on GitHub. A quick summary: On December 4, a malicious version 8.3.41 of the popular AI library ultralytics ­--which has almost 60 million downloads--was published to the Python Package Index PyPI package repository. The...

PYSEC-2024-154 A number of releases of ultralytics contained malicious crypto miner software.

Ultralytics has identified a supply chain attack affecting affecting multiple versions of the ultralytics package. The compromised versions contained unauthorized code that downloaded and executed cryptocurrency mining software when instantiating YOLO models. This code was injected into the PyPI...

A number of releases of ultralytics contained malicious crypto miner software.

Ultralytics has identified a supply chain attackaffecting affecting multiple versions of the ultralytics package.The compromised versions contained unauthorized code thatdownloaded and executed cryptocurrency mining softwarewhen instantiating YOLO models.This code was injected into the PyPI relea...

Ultralytics AI Library Hacked via GitHub for Cryptomining

A supply chain attack on Ultralytics exploited GitHub Actions to inject malicious PyPI packages. Discover how it unfolded and the steps to mitigate the risk...

Ultralytics AI Library with 60M Downloads Compromised for Cryptomining

Another day, another supply chain attack!...

Ultralytics AI Library Compromised: Cryptocurrency Miner Found in PyPI Versions

In yet another software supply chain attack, it has come to light that two versions of a popular Python artificial intelligence AI library named ultralytics were compromised to deliver a cryptocurrency miner. The versions, 8.3.41 and 8.3.42, have since been removed from the Python Package Index...

Researchers Uncover Backdoor in Solana's Popular Web3.js npm Library

Cybersecurity researchers are alerting to a software supply chain attack targeting the popular @solana/web3.js npm library that involved pushing two malicious versions capable of harvesting users' private keys with an aim to drain their cryptocurrency wallets. The attack has been detected in...

XML-RPC npm Library Turns Malicious, Steals Data, Deploys Crypto Miner

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a software supply chain attack that has remained active for over a year on the npm package registry by starting off as an innocuous library and later adding malicious code to steal sensitive data and mine cryptocurrency on infected systems. The package,...

Malicious Package

Overview cryptoaitools is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code stealing sensitive data from the victim machine. Remediation Avoid using all malicious instances of the cryptoaitools package. References - Checkmarx Blog Credit: Yehuda Gelb...

LottieFiles Issues Warning About Compromised "lottie-player" npm Package

LottieFiles has revealed that its npm package "lottie-player" was compromised as part of a supply chain attack, prompting it to release an updated version of the library. "On October 30th 6:20 PM UTC - LottieFiles were notified that our popular open source npm package for the web player...

Supply chain attack on lottie-player: everything you need to know

Supply chain attack in popular lottie-player library compromises websites with malicious Web3 wallet prompts – update or revert the library to avoid the compromised versions...

Critical NVIDIA Container Toolkit Vulnerability Could Grant Full Host Access to Attackers

A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the NVIDIA Container Toolkit that, if successfully exploited, could allow threat actors to break out of the confines of a container and gain full access to the underlying host. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-0132, carries a CVSS score of 9.0...

Remotely Exploding Pagers

Wow. It seems they all exploded simultaneously, which means they were triggered. Were they each tampered with physically, or did someone figure out how to trigger a thermal runaway remotely? Supply chain attack? Malicious code update, or natural vulnerability? I have no idea, but I expect we will...

Google Fixes GCP Composer Flaw That Could've Led to Remote Code Execution

A now-patched critical security flaw impacting Google Cloud Platform GCP Composer could have been exploited to achieve remote code execution on cloud servers by means of a supply chain attack technique called dependency confusion. The vulnerability has been codenamed CloudImposer by Tenable...

TIDRONE Espionage Group Targets Taiwan Drone Makers in Cyber Campaign

A previously undocumented threat actor with likely ties to Chinese-speaking groups has predominantly singled out drone manufacturers in Taiwan as part of a cyber attack campaign that commenced in 2024. Trend Micro is tracking the adversary under the moniker TIDRONE, stating the activity is...