Malicious Package

Overview twofactortotp is a malicious package. The package's name is based on existing repositories, namespaces, or components used by popular companies in an effort to trick employees into downloading it, also known as 'dependency confusion'. Therefore, you're only vulnerable if this package was...

atm_areeba (1.0.2) potentially affected by unknown CVE via deneuve-package-private (0.0.1-security)

deneuve-package-private NPM version 0.0.1-security is affected by a known vulnerability. The following packages have a transitive dependency on deneuve-package-private and may be impacted: - atmareeba 1.0.2 Source cves: unknown CVE Source advisory: OSV:MAL-2022-2420...

CVE-2022-28383

CVE-2022-28383 affects Verbatim drives (Keypad Secure USB Drive; Store ’n’ Go Secure Portable HDD GD25LK01-3637-C VER4.0; Executive Fingerprint Secure SSD GDMSFE01-INI3637-C VER1.1; Fingerprint Secure Portable Hard Drive). Root cause: insufficient firmware validation in the USB‑to‑SATA bridge con...

Microsoft Blocks Iran-linked Lebanese Hackers Targeting Israeli Companies

Microsoft on Thursday said it took steps to disable malicious activity stemming from abuse of OneDrive by a previously undocumented threat actor it tracks under the chemical element-themed moniker Polonium. In addition to removing the offending accounts created by the Lebanon-based activity group...

How Secrets Lurking in Source Code Lead to Major Breaches

If one word could sum up the 2021 infosecurity year well, actually three, it would be these: "supply chain attack". A software supply chain attack happens when hackers manipulate the code in third-party software components to compromise the 'downstream' applications that use them. In 2021, we hav...

Popular PyPI Package 'ctx' and PHP Library 'phpass' Hijacked to Steal AWS Keys

Two trojanized Python and PHP packages have been uncovered in what's yet another instance of a software supply chain attack targeting the open source ecosystem. One of the packages in question is "ctx," a Python module available in the PyPi repository. The other involves "phpass," a PHP package...

Researchers Uncover Rust Supply Chain Attack Targeting Cloud CI Pipelines

A case of software supply chain attack has been observed in the Rust programming language's crate registry that leveraged typosquatting techniques to publish a rogue library containing malware. Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne dubbed the attack "CrateDepression." Typosquatting attacks take place wh...

Malicious NPM Packages Target German Companies in Supply Chain Attack

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a number of malicious packages in the NPM registry specifically targeting a number of prominent media, logistics, and industrial firms based in Germany to carry out supply chain attacks. "Compared with most malware found in the NPM repository, this payloa...

Ransomware: April 2022 review

The Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence team monitors the threat landscape continuously and produces monthly ransomware reports based on a mixture of proprietary and open-source intelligence. April 2022 was most notable for the emergence of three new ransomware-as-a-service RaaS groups—Onyx, Mindwar...

NPM Bug Allowed Attackers to Distribute Malware as Legitimate Packages

A "logical flaw" has been disclosed in NPM, the default package manager for the Node.js JavaScript runtime environment, that enables malicious actors to pass off rogue libraries as legitimate and trick unsuspecting developers into installing them. The supply chain threat has been dubbed "Package...

FIN7 Hackers Leveraging Password Reuse and Software Supply Chain Attacks

The notorious cybercrime group known as FIN7 has diversified its initial access vectors to incorporate software supply chain compromise and the use of stolen credentials, new research has revealed. "Data theft extortion or ransomware deployment following FIN7-attributed activity at multiple...

A Large-Scale Supply Chain Attack Distributed Over 800 Malicious NPM Packages

A threat actor dubbed "RED-LILI" has been linked to an ongoing large-scale supply chain attack campaign targeting the NPM package repository by publishing nearly 800 malicious modules. "Customarily, attackers use an anonymous disposable NPM account from which they launch their attacks," Israeli...

Over 200 Malicious NPM Packages Caught Targeting Azure Developers

A new large scale supply chain attack has been observed targeting Azure developers with no less than 218 malicious NPM packages with the goal of stealing personal identifiable information. "After manually inspecting some of these packages, it became apparent that this was a targeted attack agains...

Dev Sabotages Popular NPM Package to Protest Russian Invasion

The developer behind the hugely popular npm package “node-ipc” has released sabotaged versions of the library to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: a supply-chain tinkering that he’d prefer to call “protestware” as opposed to “malware.” Regardless of the peace-not-war messaging, node-ipc is no...

Pandora Ransomware Hits Giant Automotive Supplier Denso

A multibillion supplier to key automotive companies like Toyota, Mercedes-Benz and Ford confirmed Monday that it was the target of a cyberattack over the weekend – confirmation that came after the Pandora ransomware group began leaking data that attackers claimed was stolen in the incident. The...

Entering a Higher State of Vigilance – Ukraine Under Attack

It appears that Russia has just commenced the invasion of Ukraine. Check your preferred international news outlet, but according to the Ukrainian foreign minister "Putin has just launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine." Ukrainian airspace is closed with flights diverting. The Twitter Safety...

Chinese Hackers Target Taiwan's Financial Trading Sector with Supply Chain Attack

An advanced persistent threat APT group operating with objectives aligned with the Chinese government has been linked to an organized supply chain attack on Taiwan's financial sector. The attacks are said to have first commenced at the end of November 2021, with the intrusions attributed to a...

AdSanity, AccessPress Plugins Open Scads of WordPress Sites to Takeover

The WordPress content management system CMS is offering admins more headaches this week, thanks to a pair of disparate but concerning security problems in add-ons for the platform. The first issue affects the WordPress AdSanity plugin. It’s a critical security vulnerability that could allow remot...

Hackers Planted Secret Backdoor in Dozens of WordPress Plugins and Themes

In yet another instance of software supply chain attack, dozens of WordPress themes and plugins hosted on a developer's website were backdoored with malicious code in the first half of September 2021 with the goal of infecting further sites. The backdoor gave the attackers full administrative...

Ukraine: Recent Cyber Attacks Part of Wider Plot to Sabotage Critical Infrastructure

The coordinated cyberattacks targeting Ukrainian government websites and the deployment of a data-wiper malware called WhisperGate on select government systems are part of a broader wave of malicious activities aimed at sabotaging critical infrastructure in the country. The Secret Service of...