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Package hallucination: LLMs may deliver malicious code to careless devs
LLMs’ tendency to “hallucinate” code packages that don’t exist could become the basis for a new type of supply chain attack dubbed …
OSPS Baseline: Practical security best practices for open source software projects
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), a cross-industry initiative by the Linux Foundation, has announced the initial release of the Open Source Project Security …
China-based Silver Fox spoofs healthcare app to deliver malware
Silver Fox, a China-based threat actor that may or may not be backed by the Chinese government, has been delivering the ValleyRAT backdoor to unsuspecting users by disguising …
PRevent: Open-source tool to detect malicious code in pull requests
Apiiro security researchers have released open source tools that can help organizations detect malicious code as part of their software development lifecycle: PRevent (a …
The XCSSET info-stealing malware is back, targeting macOS users and devs
A new, improved variant of the XCSSET macOS malware has been spotted “in limited attacks” by Microsoft’s threat researchers. XCSSET macOS malware XCSSET in …
Malicious ML models found on Hugging Face Hub
Researchers have spotted two machine learning (ML) models containing malicious code on Hugging Face Hub, the popular online repository for datasets and pre-trained models. …
GitHub CISO on security strategy and collaborating with the open-source community
In this Help Net Security, Alexis Wales, CISO at GitHub, discusses how GitHub embeds security into every aspect of its platform to protect millions of developers and …
Time for a change: Elevating developers’ security skills
Organizations don’t know their software engineers’ security skills because they don’t assess them in the interview process. Trying to do that in an interview is challenging, …
GitLab CISO on proactive monitoring and metrics for DevSecOps success
In this Help Net Security interview, Josh Lemos, CISO at GitLab, talks about the shift from DevOps to DevSecOps, focusing on the complexity of building systems and integrating …
Cybercriminals used a gaming engine to create undetectable malware loader
Threat actors are using an ingenious new way for covertly delivering malware to a wide variety of operating systems and platforms: they have created a malware loader that uses …
Active network of North Korean IT front companies exposed
An analysis of the websites belonging to companies that served as a front for getting North Korean IT workers remote jobs with businesses worldwide has revealed an active …
GitHub Secure Open Source Fund: Project maintainers, apply now!
GitHub is calling on maintainers of open source projects to apply for the newly opened Secure Open Source Fund, to get funding and knowledge to improve the security and …
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