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Shai-Hulud

New Shai Hulud Variant Hits Red Hat npm Packages

Researchers said that they found a Red Hat employee’s GitHub account had been compromised and was used by threat actors to push malicious orphan commits directly to several repositories.

LINDSEY O'DONNELL-WELCH · JUN 1 · 3 min
Linux

New Dirty Frag Linux Bug Emerges

The vulnerability class is a potent new iteration of kernel bugs that corrupt the page cache of read-only files and is a follow-on to the recently disclosed Copy Fail Linux LPE bug.

Dennis Fisher · 3 min
Open Source

Attackers Target Checkmarx KICS Ecosystem

Yet another supply chain attack has hit the open source ecosystem, this time impacting the Checkmarx KICS Docker Hub repository.

Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch · 3 min
Supply Chain

TeamPCP’s Supply Chain Attack Spree Continues

TeamPCP’s latest victim is the Telnyx Python SDK on PyPl, coming after a wave of supply chain hits on Aqua Trivy, Checkmarx KICS/OpenVSX, and LiteLLM.

Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch · 3 min
Linux

High-Risk Authentication Bypass Flaw Found in Telnetd

The flaw is in the way that the telnetd server handles some specific user-supplied data. An attacker who exploits this vulnerability would be able to bypass the authentication path and gain root privileges.

Dennis Fisher · 1 min
Open Source

GitHub Aims to Improve npm Security After Malware Campaigns

GitHub said the changes will help “fortify the security of the software supply chain” after a recent surge of attacks targeting the npm ecosystem.

Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch · 4 min

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