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Threat actors are injecting malicious codes into legitimate crypto projects

Malicious actors are now injecting malicious codes into legitimate projects to steal digital assets from unsuspecting users. According to reports, cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a ...
Ars Technica

Hundreds of code libraries posted to NPM try to install malware on dev machines

An ongoing attack is uploading hundreds of malicious packages to the open source node package manager (NPM) repository in an attempt to infect the devices of developers who rely on code libraries ...
Ars Technica

GitHub besieged by millions of malicious repositories in ongoing attack

GitHub is struggling to contain an ongoing attack that’s flooding the site with millions of code repositories. These repositories contain obfuscated malware that steals passwords and cryptocurrency ...
Dark Reading

Anatomy of a Malicious Package Attack

Last January, thousands of users of two popular open source libraries, "faker" and "colors," were shocked to see their applications breaking and showing gibberish data after being infected with a ...
CoinDesk

Ledger Exploit Drained $484K, Upended DeFi; Former Staffer Linked to Malicious Code

Hackers stole $484,000 on Thursday after inserting malicious code into the Github library for Connect Kit, a widely-used piece of blockchain software maintained by the crypto wallet firm Ledger.