There’s a New Stealer Variant in Town, and It’s Using Electron to Stay Fully Undetected
See the attack flow of this new info-stealer Mend.io detected and how it can stay undetected by abusing trusted development tools like Electron.
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The Unseen Risks of Open Source Dependencies: The Case of an Abandoned Name
Mend.io research discovered a threat actor takeover of the name ‘gemnasium-gitlab-service', a retired Ruby gem with more than two million downloads. Existing projects that haven't updated their dependencies might unwittingly pull in this new version, assuming it's a continuation of the original. Given that the new gem is now controlled by an unknown entity, it could be altered to include malicious code or to perform undesirable actions.
Deceptive ‘Vibranced’ npm Package Discovered Masquerading as Popular ‘Colors’ Package
A new malicious package named 'Vibranced' has been detected on the Node Package Manager (npm) repository and poses a significant threat to users who may unknowingly install it. The package has been carefully crafted to mimic the popular ‘colors’ package.
No Festive Break for Security as Attackers Target Almost 300 NPM Packages
Our team detected an attack on npm packages that utilized typosquatting to compromise nearly 300 NPM packages.
A Busy Weekend for npm Attacks, Including ‘cors’ Typosquatting
Over the past three days, the Mend research team identified two separate attacks that published malicious packages to npm: reverse remote shell as part of typosquatting attack on the popular ‘cors’ package, and an ATO attack on the “Just Eat” organization.