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Two weeks ago, a suspected North Korean threat actor slipped malicious code into a package within Axios, a widely used JavaScript library. The immediate concern was the blast radius: roughly 100 million weekly downloads spanning enterprises, startups, and government systems. But beyond the sheer scale, the attack’s speed was just as worrisome – a stark […] The post Why the Axios attack proves AI is mandatory for supply chain security appeared first on CyberScoop.

Bank Info Security 10 months ago

Shai Hulud Burrows Into NPM Repository

JavaScript Repository Contends With Wormable Malicious CodeAn apparent "Dune" aficionado is responsible for the first self-propagating attack on the npm JavaScript repository in what one security company has called one of the most severe JavaScript supply-chain attacks so far. A malicious script exfiltrated data to GitHub repositories named "Shai-Hulud."

Bank Info Security 1 year, 3 months ago

Lazarus Expands NPM Campaign With Trojan Loaders

North Korea's Lazarus Deploys Malicious NPM Packages to Steal DataNorth Korea's Lazarus Group expanded a malicious campaign of uploading malicious code to the JavaScript runtime environment npm repository, publishing 11 packages embedded with Trojan loaders. Researchers identified 11 malicious packages in the repository, a hotspot for supply chain attacks.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a software supply chain attack that has remained active for over a year on the npm package registry by starting off as an innocuous library and later adding malicious code to steal sensitive data and mine cryptocurrency on infected systems

The Register 3 years, 8 months ago

Oh, look: More malware in the Google Play store

Also, US media hit with JavaScript supply chain attack, while half of govt employees use out-of-date mobile OSes in brief A quartet of malware-laden Android apps from a single developer have been caught with malicious code more than once, yet the infected apps remain on Google Play and have collectively been downloaded more than one million times. …