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 is an insidious software supply chain issue. Attackers can take over upstream packages if the original owner changes or deletes his/her username.
In late 2020, one of the most devastating cyber attacks of the last decade was discovered: the SolarWinds breach.
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,
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,