Malicious ‘aptX’ Python package drops Meterpreter shell, deletes ‘netstat’
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Sonatype identified malicious Python packages on the PyPI software registry that carried out multiple nefarious activities.
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This Week in Malware—Ongoing Dependency Confusion
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This week in malware, Sonatype's automated malware detection systems have spotted over four dozen dependency confusion candidates.
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More than 200 cryptomining packages flood npm and PyPI registry
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More than 200 malicious packages have flooded npm and PyPI registries to install cryptominers on Linux hosts.
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PyPI package 'secretslib' drops fileless Linux malware to mine monero
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Sonatype identified a 'secretslib' PyPI package that covertly installs cryptominers on Linux systems.
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Ransomware in PyPI: Sonatype spots 'Requests' typosquats
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Sonatype has spotted multiple typosquats of the popular Python library, 'requests' that contain ransomware scripts.
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StringJS typosquat deploys Discord infostealer obfuscated five times
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An npm package called 'stringjs_lib' identified by Sonatype this week typosquats the popular npm library 'string' (or StringJS) to ship an obfuscated info-stealer obfuscated not one, five times.
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This Week in Malware — John Deere dependency confusion attempt and more
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We discovered and analyzed 17 packages, at least a dozen of which were dependency confusion PoCs directly targeting the agricultural equipment giant John Deere (Deere & Company). An additional 42
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John Deere dependency confusion attempt flagged by Sonatype
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Sonatype identified 17 npm packages, at least 12 of which directly target John Deere's private npm dependencies via dependency confusion, a technique that continues to repeatedly be employed by bug
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This Week in Malware — July 15th edition
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This Week in Malware we identified over 34 npm and PyPI packages that are either dependency confusion candidates, prank packages, contain PoC reverse shell code, or otherwise contain extensive
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