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"The packages contained a PowerShell script that would execute upon installation and trigger a download of a 'second stage' payload, which could be remotely executed," JFrog researchers Natan Nehorai and Brian Moussalli said. While NuGet packages have been in the past found to contain vulnerabilities and be abused to propagate phishing links, the development marks the first-ever discovery of packages with malicious code.

NET developers with cryptocurrency stealers delivered through the NuGet repository and impersonating multiple legitimate packages via typosquatting. NET developers who had their systems compromised, it could also be explained by the attackers' efforts to legitimize their malicious NuGet packages.

Ukraine's cyberpolice has arrested the developer of a remote access trojan malware that infected over 10,000 computers while posing as game applications. "The man developed viral software, which he positioned as applications for computer games."

GSC Game World, the developer of the highly-anticipated 'STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl' game, warned their systems were breached, allowing threat actors to steal game assets during the attack. The Ukrainian game publisher says that a "Community from a Russian social network" was behind the attack and is blackmailing the company by threatening to release data for Stalker 2, which is expected to be released later this year.

GitHub will start requiring active developers to enable two-factor authentication on their accounts beginning next week, on March 13. The gradual rollout will start next week with GitHub reaching out to smaller groups of administrators and developers via email and will speed up as the end of the year approaches to ensure that onboarding is seamless and users have time to sort out any issues.

Developers care about the quality and security of their code, and when empowered to help, developers make great security advocates who can help harden your supply chain security while reducing the burden on DevOps and security teams. Introducing security tools that allow developers to own code security within their existing development process can increase early risk identification and simplify the process of mitigating risks, slowing the growth of vulnerability backlogs.

LastPass is, once again, telling customers about a security incident related to the August 2022 breach of its development environment and subsequent unauthorized access to the company's third-party cloud storage service that hosted backups: "The threat actor leveraged information stolen during the first incident, information available from a third-party data breach, and a vulnerability in a third-party media software package to launch a coordinated second attack." The second incident went initially unnoticed, LastPass says, the tactics, techniques, and procedures and the indicators of compromise of the second incident "Were not consistent with those of the first." It was only later determined that the two incidents were related.

Cybersecurity researchers are warning of "Imposter packages" mimicking popular libraries available on the Python Package Index repository. The 41 malicious PyPI packages have been found to pose as typosquatted variants of legitimate modules such as HTTP, AIOHTTP, requests, urllib, and urllib3.

Malicious actors have published more than 451 unique Python packages on the official Python Package Index repository in an attempt to infect developer systems with clipper malware. Targeted web browsers include Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, and Opera, with the malware modifying browser shortcuts to load the add-on automatically upon launch using the "-load-extension" command line switch.

Malware developers and penetration testers are in high demand across dark web job posting sites, with a few astonishing - but mostly average - wages. The report found that many ads mirror the style of legitimate IT job postings but with a couple big exceptions: all the work is remote by default, and - for obvious reasons - there are no formal employment contracts for these illegal gigs.