Nexus Intelligence Insights
There’s a RAT in my code: new npm malware with Bladabindi trojan spotted
Over the Thanksgiving weekend, Sonatype discovered new malware within the npm registry. This time, the typosquatting packages identified by us are laced with a popular Remote Access Trojan (RAT) ...
Massive threat campaign strikes open-source repos, Sonatype spots new CursedGrabber malware
Sonatype has discovered more malware in the npm registry which, following our analysis and multiple cyber threat intelligence reports, has led to the discovery of a novel and large scale malware campaign ...
Sonatype finds malicious npm packages which broadcast your IP, username, and device fingerprint info on the web
Sonatype researchers discovered and confirmed the presence of two new vulnerable npm packages. Sonatype’s discovery was initially made by its malicious code detection bots. By applying machine learning and artificial intelligence to ...
Inside the “fallguys” malware that steals your browsing data and gaming IMs; Continued attack on open source software
This weekend a report emerged of mysterious npm malware stealing sensitive information from Discord apps and web browsers installed on a user’s machine ...
From Prototype Pollution to full-on remote code execution, how can adversaries exploit npm modules?
The NodeJS component express-fileupload - touting 7 million downloads from the npm registry - now has a critical Prototype Pollution vulnerability ...
Nexus Intelligence Insights: xlsx aka SheetJS – Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) and sonatype-2018-0622
For this month’s Nexus Intelligence Insights, we explore an interesting case of ReDoS vulnerability impacting the popular npm component, SheetJS, also known as “xlsx”. It may pique your interest to learn that ...
Nexus Intelligence Insights: Protect Your Bitcoins from 700+ Malicious RubyGems with sonatype-2020-0196
Last week news broke about how 700 typosquatting libraries had made their way into the famous RubyGems repository. The complete list, first published by Reversing Labs, reveals how crafty attackers can take ...
Nexus Intelligence Insights: CVE-2019-3773 Spring Web Services XML External Entity Injection (XXE)
Spring, a widely used component, makes programming multiple things in Java easier, faster, and safer. The project’s focus on speed, simplicity, and productivity has made it one of the world's most popular ...
Nexus Intelligence Insights: What’s in a Ghostcat? CVE-2020-1938 Apache Tomcat – Local File Inclusion Potentially Leads to RCE
For this month’s Nexus Intelligence Insights, let’s dive deep into the popular Ghostcat vulnerability making headlines recently. This vulnerability deserves attention as it impacts the widely used Apache Tomcat web server, has ...
Nexus Intelligence Insights CVE-2020-2100: Jenkins – UDP Amplification Reflection Attack Leading to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
In the wake of the serious Jenkins vulnerability impacting at least 12,000 Jenkins servers, we dedicate February’s Nexus Intelligence Insights to helping you solve it. This vulnerability is clever; it opens up ...
