This Week in Malware — npm malware exfiltrates Windows SAM, Amazon EC2 credentials

By Ax Sharma on June 10, 2022 vulnerabilities

4 minute read time

Malicious packages caught this week exfiltrate Amazon EC2, Windows SAM credentials, and launch malicious executables.
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This Week in Malware — Malicious Rust crate, 'colors' typosquats

By Ax Sharma on May 14, 2022 vulnerabilities

5 minute read time

From a malcious Rust typosquat found in the crates[.
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Malicious npm 'colors' typosquats pack Discord malware

By Ax Sharma on May 03, 2022 vulnerabilities

5 minute read time

Sonatype has caught newer typosquats of the popular 'colors' npm library that contain Discord info-stealing malware.
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Fixing a vulnerability? Make sure your GitHub isn't showing too much

By Ax Sharma on April 04, 2022 github

5 minute read time

February's $326 million crypto hack at Wormhole and this month's findings by Sonatype shed light on the importance of secrets management for open source.
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This Week in Malware — A 'fix-crash' info-stealer and 500+ malicious npm packages

By Ax Sharma on April 01, 2022 vulnerabilities

6 minute read time

This week in malware—Dive Deep into this week's findings from Sonatype's automated malware detection system.
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86 malicious npm packages named after popular NodeJS functions

By Ax Sharma on March 28, 2022 vulnerabilities

3 minute read time

Sonatype has now discovered 83 packages on the npm open source repository named after popular NodeJS & JavaScript functions that exfiltrate system information.
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Remember npm library 'colors'? There's no such thing as 'colors-2.0'

By Ax Sharma on March 15, 2022 vulnerabilities

5 minute read time

Alongside the popular 'colors' library on npm come unwanted malicious typosquats called 'colors-2.0', 'colors-3.0, 'colorsss', and so on.
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What's in your jQuery app? Not the fishy 'jquery-lh' we hope!

By Ax Sharma on February 17, 2022 vulnerabilities

3 minute read time

The mysterious 'jquery-lh' npm package installs real jQuery code while doing something fishy behind the scenes.
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PyPI, NuGet, npm flooded with Roblox and Fortnite spam: What draws OSS attackers to gamers?

By Ax Sharma on February 15, 2022 vulnerabilities

7 minute read time

Spammers flood PyPI, NuGet and npm with bogus Roblox and Fortnite spam, as open source attacks leveraging gaming platforms continue to increase.
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