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Malicious Packages Special Report: Attacks Move Beyond Vulnerabilities

Malicious packages are a growing threat, and they may already have infiltrated your applications. Malicious package attacks spiked significantly from 2021 to 2022, further indication of their growing security risk to the open source ecosystem. Mend.io research observed a 315 percent spike in the publication of malicious packages to open source registries such as npm...

Attacker Floods npm With Crypto-Mining Packages that Mine Monero When Installed with Default Configuration

Monero (XMR) is an open-source, privacy-oriented cryptocurrency that was launched in 2014. It uses a public distributed ledger containing technology that obscures transaction details to ensure the anonymity of its users. Monero maintains egalitarian mining, allowing anyone to participate. As tempting as it may seem, some go a step further and use the infrastructure of...

Automated Software Supply Chain Attacks: Should You be Worried?

From the factory floor to online shopping, the benefits of automation are clear: Larger quantities of products and services can be produced much faster. But automation can also be used for malicious purposes, as illustrated by the ongoing software supply chain attack targeting the NPM package repository. By automating the process of creating and publishing...