Security News > 2025 > February > Malicious Go Package Exploits Module Mirror Caching for Persistent Remote Access

2025-02-04 14:16
Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a software supply chain attack targeting the Go ecosystem that involves a malicious package capable of granting the adversary remote access to infected systems. The package, named github.com/boltdb-go/bolt, is a typosquat of the legitimate BoltDB database module (github.com/boltdb/bolt), per Socket. The malicious version (1.3.1) was published to
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