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Consumer behaviors are the root of open source risk

Sonatype unveiled its eighth annual State of the Software Supply Chain Report which, in addition to a massive surge in open source supply, demand, and malicious attacks, found …

open source
Open source projects under attack, with enterprises as the ultimate targets

Sonatype has found a massive year-over-year increase in cyberattacks aimed at open source projects. According to early data from Sonatype’s 8th annual State of the …

package
Malicious PyPI packages drop ransomware, fileless malware

In this Help Net Security video, Ax Sharma, Senior Security Researcher at Sonatype, discusses newly found PyPI packages that pack ransomware, and another package that appears …

AWS keys
Python packages with malicious code expose secret AWS credentials

Sonatype researchers have discovered Python packages that contain malicious code that peek into and expose secret AWS credentials, network interface information, and …

Infosec products of the month: May 2022

Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past month, featuring releases from: AuditBoard, BIO-key, Cohesity, Corelight, Data Theorem, Deepfence, ForgeRock, …

package
Hijacking of popular ctx and phpass packages reveals open source security gaps

The Python module “ctx” and a fork of the PHP library “phpass” have recently been modified by an unknown attacker to grab AWS credentials/keys and send …

New infosec products of the week: May 13, 2022

Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Cohesity, ForgeRock, iDenfy, Nasuni, Orca Security, SecureAge, and Sonatype. …

security platform
Sonatype launches solution to remediate malicious and outdated InnerSource components

Sonatype announced a capability focused on identifying and remediating InnerSource components that contain vulnerable, malicious, or outdated open source dependencies. With …

code
What you need to look out for when installing packages from public repositories

In this Help Net Security video, Ax Sharma, Senior Security Researcher at Sonatype, talks about the risks posed by malicious open source packages. Malicious packages can harm …

Spring
Spring4Shell: New info and fixes (CVE-2022-22965)

In this video for Help Net Security, Ax Sharma, Senior Security Researcher at Sonatype, talks about the latest developments regarding Spring4Shell, the unauthenticated RCE …

Money
Sonatype exceeds $100 million in annual recurring revenue and names Alex Berry as President

Sonatype announced it has joined the ranks of the world’s most successful companies and surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR). The company also announced …

Log4j
Log4Shell update: Attack surface, attacks in the wild, mitigation and remediation

Several days have passed since the dramatic reveal of CVE-2021-44228 (aka Log4Shell), an easily exploitable (without authentication) RCE flaw in Apache Log4j, a popular …

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