This Week in Malware - 450 packages and a phishing campaign against PyPI maintainers

By Aaron Linskens on August 26, 2022 vulnerabilities

6 minute read time

This week Sonatype discovered and analyzed 450 packages flagged as malicious, suspicious, or dependency confusion attacks.
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This Week in Malware — Cryptominers flood npm, PyPI, and more dependency confusion

By Hernán Ortiz on August 19, 2022 vulnerabilities

2 minute read time

This week Sonatype discovered 200+ npm and PyPI packages that are cryptominers, with additional packages comprising dependency confusion PoCs.
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This Week in Malware - Fileless Linux cryptominer, 100 packages

By Aaron Linskens on August 12, 2022 vulnerabilities

6 minute read time

This week Sonatype discovered more than 100 open source packages that were malicious, suspicious, or dependency confusion attacks.
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This Week in Malware — Typosquats in PyPI, dependency confusion packages

By Hernán Ortiz on August 04, 2022 vulnerabilities

2 minute read time

This Week in Malware we discovered 50 packages that are either malicious or dependency confusion attacks.
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This Week in Malware — John Deere dependency confusion attempt and more

By Ax Sharma on July 22, 2022 vulnerabilities

2 minute read time

We discovered and analyzed 17 packages, at least a dozen of which were dependency confusion PoCs directly targeting the agricultural equipment giant John Deere.
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This Week in Malware — July 15th edition

By Ax Sharma on July 15, 2022 vulnerabilities

2 minute read time

This Week in Malware we identified over 34 npm and PyPI packages that are either dependency confusion candidates, prank packages, contain PoC reverse shell.
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This Week in Malware — Python packages peek into your Telegram, set up Windows RDP access

By Ax Sharma on July 08, 2022 vulnerabilities

3 minute read time

This Week in Malware we discovered and analyzed multiple malicious PyPI packages that either set up new Remote Desktop user accounts on your Windows computer.
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This Week in Malware — Python cryptominers, 345 dependency confusion packages

By Ax Sharma on July 01, 2022 vulnerabilities

16 minute read time

This week's highlights include a PyPI typosquat that drops a cryptominer and AWS credential stealer, along with an influx of 345 dependency confusion packages.
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This Week in Malware — Show me your secrets!

By Ax Sharma on June 24, 2022 vulnerabilities

2 minute read time

These Python packages not only exfiltrate your secrets—AWS credentials and environment variables but rather upload these to a publicly exposed endpoint.
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