The OpenSourceMalware Show
When you think about malware, you probably envision phishing emails or sketchy websites. But malicious open source - targeting software developers and their build systems - is becoming a top way that threat actors deliver malware. Just one 'npm install' can trigger payloads that steal information and credentials. Software supply chain attacks by state actors, ransomware groups, and freelancers are happening every day.
Hosted by Jenn Gile and Paul McCarty (co-founders of OpenSourceMalware), this podcast explores the latest trends and attacks, and helps defenders understand the tactics needed to prevent their orgs from being the next target.
OpenSourceMalware provides community-driven threat intelligence on malicious open source assets including packages, domains, IP addresses, crypto wallets, and more.
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The OpenSourceMalware Show
Latest Episodes
Hugging Face update, GitHub security improvements, DPRK linked to chald/debug, and more new PolinRider research
This week we discussed:Update from Hugging Face: Hugging Face published a technical timeline of the OpenAI evaluation agent that breached its production infrastructure between July 9 and July 13, reconstructing over 17,000 attacke...
Hugging Face incident, AgentBaiting, RubyGems, CrashStealer, and new PolinRider research
This week we talked about:Hugging Face breach and OpenAI's rogue model claim — Hugging Face disclosed a breach with thin details; OpenAI followed up claiming one of its models caused it during an internal security test...
Dependabot cooldowns, Jscrambler and AsynchAPI compromises, new PolinRider research
This week we talked about: GitHub turns on Dependabot cooldown periods by default — A three day cooldown is now applied automatically to all Dependabot version updates, a shift we've been anticipating in the fight...
Open VSX security improvements, new PolinRider researcher, shady vendor practices
This week we talked about:PolinRider jumps the fence — Paul's research on North Korea's automated repo-hijacking campaign spreading into the Go and PHP ecosystems without any extra effort from the threat actorsCyb...
GitHub security improvements, shady vendor practices
This week we talked about:GitHub’s two new account protection features: NPM added a 72-hour read-only lockout for high-impact accounts triggered by an email change or 2FA recovery code use, aimed at slowing account takeov...
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