Category: Supply Chain Security

GitLab Ships Update for Critical Pipeline Execution Vulnerability

GitLab issues an advisory for a critical-severity vulnerability that allows an attacker to trigger a pipeline as another user.

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Polyfill Domain Shut Down as Owner Disputes Accusations of Malicious Activity

Namecheap shut down polyfill.io amid reports of malicious activity, but the Chinese owner claims it has good intentions.

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Polyfill Supply Chain Attack Hits Over 100k Websites

More than 100,000 websites are affected by a supply chain attack injecting malware via a Polyfill domain.

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Several Plugins Compromised in WordPress Supply Chain Attack

Five WordPress plugins were injected with malicious code that creates a new administrative account.

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Zero-Day Attacks and Supply Chain Compromises Surge, MFA Remains Underutilized: Rapid7 Report

Attackers are getting more sophisticated, better armed, and faster. Nothing in Rapid7’s 2024 Attack Intelligence Report suggests that this will change.

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XZ Utils Backdoor Attack Brings Another Similar Incident to Light

The discovery of the XZ Utils backdoor reminds an F-Droid developer of a similar incident that occurred a few years ago.

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Supply Chain Attack: Major Linux Distributions Impacted by XZ Utils Backdoor

Urgent security alerts issued as malicious code was found embedded in the XZ Utils data compression library used in many Linux distributions.

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Malware Upload Attack Hits PyPI Repository

Maintainers of the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository were forced to suspend new project creation and new user registration to mitigate a malware upload campaign.

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