Researchers Find Over 22,000 Removed PyPI Packages at Risk of Revival Hijack

A new supply chain attack technique targeting the Python Package Index PyPI registry has been exploited in the wild in an attempt to infiltrate downstream organizations. It has been codenamed Revival Hijack by software supply chain security firm JFrog, which said the attack method could be used t...

IT threat evolution Q2 2024

Targeted attacks XZ backdoor: a supply chain attack in the making On March 29, a message on the Openwall oss-security mailing list announced the discovery of a backdoor in XZ, a compression utility included in many popular Linux distributions. The backdoored library is used by the OpenSSH server...

Chinese Volt Typhoon Exploits Versa Director Flaw, Targets U.S. and Global IT Sectors

The China-nexus cyber espionage group tracked as Volt Typhoon has been attributed with moderate confidence to the zero-day exploitation of a recently disclosed high-severity security flaw impacting Versa Director. The attacks targeted four U.S. victims and one non-U.S. victim in the Internet...

Hardware Backdoor Discovered in RFID Cards Used in Hotels and Offices Worldwide

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a hardware backdoor within a particular model of MIFARE Classic contactless cards that could allow authentication with an unknown key and open hotel rooms and office doors. The attacks have been demonstrated against FM11RF08S, a new variant of MIFARE Class...

APT trends report Q2 2024

For over six years now, Kasperskys Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT has been sharing quarterly updates on advanced persistent threats APTs. These summaries draw on our threat intelligence research, offering a representative overview of what weve published and discussed in more detail in ou...

Leaked GitHub Python Token

Heres a disaster that didnt happen: Cybersecurity researchers from JFrog recently discovered a GitHub Personal Access Token in a public Docker container hosted on Docker Hub, which granted elevated access to the GitHub repositories of the Python language, Python Package Index PyPI, and the Python...

The Aftermath of the WordPress.org Supply Chain Attack: New Malware and Techniques Emerge

On Monday June 24th, 2024 the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team was made aware of the presence of malware in the Social Warfare repository plugin. After adding the malicious code to our Threat Intelligence Database and examining it, we discovered additional affected plugins and continued...

Malicious PyPI Package Targets macOS to Steal Google Cloud Credentials

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious package on the Python Package Index PyPI repository that targets Apple macOS systems with the goal of stealing users' Google Cloud credentials from a narrow pool of victims. The package, named "lr-utils-lib," attracted a total of 59 downloads...

SolarWinds Patches 8 Critical Flaws in Access Rights Manager Software

SolarWinds has addressed a set of critical security flaws impacting its Access Rights Manager ARM software that could be exploited to access sensitive information or execute arbitrary code. Of the 13 vulnerabilities, eight are rated Critical in severity and carry a CVSS score of 9.6 out of 10.0...

GitHub Token Leak Exposes Python's Core Repositories to Potential Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers said they discovered an accidentally leaked GitHub token that could have granted elevated access to the GitHub repositories of the Python language, Python Package Index PyPI, and the Python Software Foundation PSF. JFrog, which found the GitHub Personal Access Token, sai...

60 New Malicious Packages Uncovered in NuGet Supply Chain Attack

Threat actors have been observed publishing a new wave of malicious packages to the NuGet package manager as part of an ongoing campaign that began in August 2023, while also adding a new layer of stealth to evade detection. The fresh packages, about 60 in number and spanning 290 versions,...

Cactus Ransomware: New strain in the market

Cactus Ransomware: New strain in the market By Aishwarya Gentyal · July 11, 2024 Ransomware malware has been around for many years now and it continues to dominate the headlines. It's an attacker's top choice for cyber extortion and is one of the most active and profound threats facing...

Polyfill.io Supply Chain Attack: Malicious JavaScript Injection Puts Over 100k Websites At Risk

Polyfill.io helps web developers achieve cross-browser compatibility by automatically managing necessary polyfills. By adding a script tag to their HTML, developers can ensure that features like JavaScript functions, HTML5 elements, and various APIs work across different browsers. Originally...

Supply Chain Attack

yt-dlp is vulnerable to Supply Chain Attack. The vulnerability is due to the use of a compromised CDN cdn.bootcdn.net which is used to fetch a component of the crypto-js JavaScript library, allowing an attacker to potentially inject and execute malicious JavaScript code...

Trojanized jQuery Packages Found on npm, GitHub, and jsDelivr Code Repositories

Unknown threat actors have been found propagating trojanized versions of jQuery on npm, GitHub, and jsDelivr in what appears to be an instance of a "complex and persistent" supply chain attack. "This attack stands out due to the high variability across packages," Phylum said in an analysis...

yt-dlp has dependency on potentially malicious third-party code in Douyu extractors

Impact yt-dlp's DouyuTV and DouyuShow extractors used a cdn.bootcdn.net URL as a fallback for fetching a component of the crypto-js JavaScript library. When the Douyu extractor is used, yt-dlp extracts this JavaScript code and attempts to execute it externally using PhantomJS. bootcdn.net is owne...

GHSA-3V33-3WMW-3785 yt-dlp has dependency on potentially malicious third-party code in Douyu extractors

Impact yt-dlp's DouyuTV and DouyuShow extractors used a cdn.bootcdn.net URL as a fallback for fetching a component of the crypto-js JavaScript library. When the Douyu extractor is used, yt-dlp extracts this JavaScript code and attempts to execute it externally using PhantomJS. bootcdn.net is owne...

Polyfill.io Supply Chain Attack: Widespread Compromise Affects Over 100,000 Websites

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Supply Chain Attack

Fides is vulnerable to Supply Chain Attack. The vulnerability is due to mishandling of client-side script dependencies and the use of a compromised third-party domain like polyfill.io. The vulnerability allows an attacker to serve malicious scripts to users of legacy browsers when they load...

Inclusion of Untrusted polyfill.io Code Vulnerability in fides.js

Note On Thursday, June 27, 2024, Cloudflare and Namecheap intervened at a domain level to ensure polyfill.io and its subdomains could not resolve to the compromised service, rendering this vulnerability unexploitable. The following sections describe this vulnerability prior to the domain level...