This Week in Malware — Killing Windows Defender with an npm package

By Ax Sharma on June 17, 2022 vulnerabilities

3 minute read time

This Week in Malware we discuss a malicious npm package that disables Windows Defender before dropping a trojan, and ongoing dependency confusion findings.
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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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This Week in Malware — Apache Kafka typosquats, shorthand data exfiltration

By Ax Sharma on May 06, 2022 vulnerabilities

4 minute read time

This Week In Malware—May 6th edition: Apache Kafka typosquat, and a simple distraction technique.
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This Week in Malware - Special edition on protestware and a Struts RCE deja vu

By Ax Sharma on April 15, 2022 vulnerabilities

4 minute read time

In a special edition of This Week in Malware, we change focus and look at protestware and the tale of a two-year-old Struts bug that's returned.
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This Week in Malware — VMware, secrets, and security by obscurity

By Ax Sharma on April 08, 2022 vulnerabilities

2 minute read time

This week in malware digest for 8th April 2022: VMWare dependency confusion attempt and the importance of secrets management.
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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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