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There’s a New Stealer Variant in Town, and It’s Using Electron to Stay Fully Undetected - Tom Abai
Tom Abai

Tom Abai is a security researcher at Mend.io. He is passionate about finding and addressing security incidents in the software supply chain area. In his free time, he likes to play CTF's games and learn cool stuff regarding cybersecurity.
There’s a New Stealer Variant in Town, and It’s Using Electron to Stay Fully Undetected - theres a new stealer variant in town and its using electron to stay fully undetected

There’s a New Stealer Variant in Town, and It’s Using Electron to Stay Fully Undetected

Tom Abai Aug 10, 2023
Malicious Packages

Discover the latest threat in town - a new info-stealer variant using Electron to remain undetected. Learn about its attack flow.

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The Unseen Risks of Open Source Dependencies: The Case of an Abandoned Name

Tamir Ben Ari, Tom Abai May 31, 2023
Dependency Updates

Mend.io research discovered a threat actor takeover of the name ‘gemnasium-gitlab-service', a retired Ruby gem with two million+ downloads.

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Deceptive ‘Vibranced’ npm Package Discovered Masquerading as Popular ‘Colors’ Package

Tom Abai Apr 17, 2023
Malicious Packages

Discover the threat of the 'Vibranced' npm package masquerading as 'Colors'. Learn about its stages of execution, obfuscation techniques.

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