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Aviad Gershon

First Known Phishing Attack Against PyPi Users

A few hours ago, PyPi disclose information on the first seen phishing attack aimed at a Python contributor. Right now, we are aware of hundreds of malicious packages that were related to this attack based on the known indicator. During

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New Protestware Found Lurking in Highly Popular NPM Package

Does Protestware undermine the trustworthiness of OSS ecosystems? Two popular packages, “styled-components” and “es5-ext”, with millions of weekly downloads and thousands of dependent projects, released new Protestware versions. The new versions verify that the infected machine belongs to a Russian

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Protestware, Politics, and Open Source Software

Intro A popular NPM package node-ipc was purposely infected with a malicious payload by its own creator to protest over the Russia-Ukraine war. This package has over a million weekly downloads and hundreds of direct other dependent packages, including the

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Recently Discovered Supply-chain Worm

Malicious Python Packages with Self-spreading Capabilities Caught Stealing Browser Credentials, Discord Tokens, and System Information. The malicious package is able to steal the user’s password from their Chrome browser, along with Discord tokens and system information, and exfiltrate this data

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Attackers Write Bugs as Well!

A new attempt to compromise a popular NPM package had occurred in the past few hours. The popular COA (Command-Option-Argument) package is a parser for command line options with around 9 million weekly downloads, and a long list of dependent

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