PyPI Repository Makes 2FA Security Mandatory for Critical Python Projects

The maintainers of the official third-party software repository for Python have begun imposing a new two-factor authentication 2FA condition for projects deemed "critical." "We've begun rolling out a 2FA requirement: soon, maintainers of critical projects must have 2FA enabled to publish, update,...

Malicious Package

Overview ably-asset-tracking-common 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 thi...

Malicious Package

Overview ably-control-api-action 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...

Malicious Package

Overview api-key-regex 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...

IconBurst software supply chain attack offers malicious versions of NPM packages

Researchers discovered evidence of a widespread software supply chain attack involving malicious Javascript packages offered via the npm package manager. The threat actors behind the IconBurst campaign used typosquatting to mislead developers looking for very popular packages. npm npm is short fo...

Malicious Package

Overview compensation-calculator 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...

Malicious Package

Overview ovotech 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...

Researchers Uncover Malicious NPM Packages Stealing Data from Apps and Web Forms

A widespread software supply chain attack has targeted the NPM package manager at least since December 2021 with rogue modules designed to steal data entered in forms by users on websites that include them. The coordinated attack, dubbed IconBurst by ReversingLabs, involves no fewer than two doze...

Malicious Package

Overview fast-todo-app 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...

Malicious Package

Overview bolt-scripts 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...

Malicious Package

Overview pipeline-npm-artifactory 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...

Total supply can be incorrect in ERC20

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact totalSupply can be initialized to something different than 0, which would lead to an inaccurate total supply, and could easily break integrations, computations of market cap, etc. Proof of Concept If the constructor is called with initialSupply = 1000, t...

Malicious Package

Overview bb-netlify 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...

getSupplyRate returns rate per year instead of per block

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact According to the documentation in InterestRateModel, getSupplyRate has to return the supply rate per block and the function supplyRatePerBlock in CToken directly returns the value of getSupplyRate. However, the rate per year is returned for NoteInterest...

baseRatePerBlock not updated when a new base rate is set

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact When an admin sets a new baseRatePerYear in setBaseRatePerYear, the baseRatePerBlock is not updated. If the deltaBlocks has not passed yet, it will also not be updated when getSupplyRate is called, i.e. a stale value will be returned there. Recommended...

Malicious Package

Overview sichain-api 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...

What Are Shadow IDs, and How Are They Crucial in 2022?

Just before last Christmas, in a first-of-a-kind case, JPMorgan was fined $200M for employees using non-sanctioned applications for communicating about financial strategy. No mention of insider trading, naked shorting, or any malevolence. Just employees circumventing regulation using, well, Shado...

Yieldy._storeRebase() saves and emits wrong values.

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Yieldy.storeRebase saves and emits wrong values. I don't think the asset will be lost directly because of this but the rebase storage will have wrong values and it might affect the system later. Proof of Concept The previousCirculating must be a previous...

Multiple Backdoored Python Libraries Caught Stealing AWS Secrets and Keys

Researchers have discovered a number of malicious Python packages in the official third-party software repository that are engineered to exfiltrate AWS credentials and environment variables to a publicly exposed endpoint. The list of packages includes loglib-modules, pyg-modules, pygrata,...

Malicious Package

Overview ethmoji-js-demo 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 w...