More than 200 cryptomining packages flood npm and PyPI registry

By Ax Sharma on August 19, 2022 vulnerabilities

5 minute read time

More than 200 malicious packages have flooded npm and PyPI registries to install cryptominers on Linux hosts.
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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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PyPI package 'secretslib' drops fileless Linux malware to mine monero

By Ax Sharma on August 11, 2022 vulnerabilities

7 minute read time

Sonatype identified a 'secretslib' PyPI package that covertly installs cryptominers on Linux systems.
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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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Ransomware in PyPI: Sonatype spots 'Requests' typosquats

By Ax Sharma on August 02, 2022 vulnerabilities

7 minute read time

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

By Ax Sharma on July 26, 2022 vulnerabilities

4 minute read time

An npm package called 'stringjs_lib' identified by Sonatype this week typosquats the popular npm library 'string' (or StringJS) to ship an obfuscated.
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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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John Deere dependency confusion attempt flagged by Sonatype

By Ax Sharma on July 21, 2022 vulnerabilities

3 minute read time

Sonatype identified 17 npm packages, at least 12 of which directly target John Deere's private npm dependencies via dependency confusion, a technique that.
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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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