Build System and Version Control Compromises - the New Normal
While SolarWinds made headlines within the last few months for the sheer scope of impact, a sharp uptick in build and version control system compromises have followed in the intervening
What the History of Software Supply Chain Attacks Says About Today’s Risk
Despite attracting major media attention in the wake of the recent SolarWinds breach, software supply chain attacks are not a new concept. In this post, we take a look at the last forty years and examine how software supply chain attacks became such a big issue.
Internally Hosted Dependencies: A Losing Battle
Dependency confusion allows bad actors to emulate internal software packages to gain access to developer workstations and critical build infrastructure. Understand this entirely new supply chain issue and how to manage against it.
Repo Jacking: Hidden Danger in Broken Links
Repo jacking is an insidious software supply chain issue. Attackers can take over upstream packages if the original owner changes or deletes his/her username.
How to Understand and Defend Against SolarWinds-Type Attacks
In late 2020, one of the most devastating cyber attacks of the last decade was discovered: the SolarWinds breach.
The Anatomy of a Malicious Package (Part 2)
Picking up where we left off in the last article, we need to start thinking about improving our situation. To recap, we've now got initial execution on a victim system,
The Anatomy of a Malicious Package
What does a malicious package actually look like in practice? We'll walk through some hypothetical exercises to see how malware generally works, and what sort of functions we might expect,
The State of the NPM Ecosystem
What does the upstream for major packages really look like? Over the past few years, the shape of the open source ecosystem landscape has shifted drastically, exploding both in the
Typosquatting and Other Attacks Against Open Source Dependencies
In November of 2018 a malicious Javascript package was identified and subsequently removed from the NPM ecosystem. A nefarious modification was introduced into this package, flatmap-stream, which was then added