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Millions of Apple Applications Were Vulnerable to CocoaPods Supply Chain Attack
2024-07-03 14:37

The security team says they found vulnerable CocoaPods pods in "The documentation or terms of service documents of applications provided by Meta, Apple, and Microsoft; as well as in TikTok, Snapchat, Amazon, LinkedIn, Netflix, Okta, Yahoo, Zynga, and many more." E.V.A. reported the vulnerability to CocoaPods in October 2023, at which point it was patched.

'Almost every Apple device' vulnerable to CocoaPods supply chain attack
2024-07-02 07:32

EVA claims CocoaPods in 2014 migrated all "Pods" - a file describing a project's dependencies - to a new "Trunk server" on GitHub. CocoaPods authenticates new devices using an email sent to users who request a session, the researchers noted - but authentication doesn't rely on anything but a client verifying their email address by clicking a link.

Critical Flaws in CocoaPods Expose iOS and macOS Apps to Supply Chain Attacks
2024-07-01 16:12

A trio of security flaws has been uncovered in the CocoaPods dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C Cocoa projects that could be exploited to stage software supply chain attacks, putting...

Polyfill.io claims reveal new cracks in supply chain, but how deep do they go?
2024-07-01 10:32

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Poyfill.io claims reveal new cracks in supply chain, but how deep do they go?
2024-07-01 10:32

Your profile can be used to present content that appears more relevant based on your possible interests, such as by adapting the order in which content is shown to you, so that it is even easier for you to find content that matches your interests. Content presented to you on this service can be based on your content personalisation profiles, which can reflect your activity on this or other services, possible interests and personal aspects.

Practical Guidance For Securing Your Software Supply Chain
2024-06-26 09:52

The heightened regulatory and legal pressure on software-producing organizations to secure their supply chains and ensure the integrity of their software should come as no surprise. In the last...

Over 110,000 Websites Affected by Hijacked Polyfill Supply Chain Attack
2024-06-26 04:24

Google has taken steps to block ads for e-commerce sites that use the Polyfill.io service after a Chinese company acquired the domain and modified the JavaScript library ("polyfill.js") to...

B+ security rating masks healthcare supply chain risks
2024-06-26 03:00

While the healthcare sector gets a "B+" security rating for the first half of 2024, it faces a critical vulnerability: supply chain cyber risk, according to SecurityScorecard. The US healthcare industry's security ratings were better than expected, with an average score of 88.

Plugins on WordPress.org backdoored in supply chain attack
2024-06-25 19:25

A threat actor modified the source code of at least five plugins hosted on WordPress.org to include malicious PHP scripts that create new accounts with administrative privileges on websites running them. Although it is possible that the attack impacts a larger number of WordPress plugins, current evidence suggests that the compromise is limited to the aforementioned set of five.

Polyfill.io JavaScript supply chain attack impacts over 100K sites
2024-06-25 18:10

Over 100,000 sites have been impacted in a supply chain attack by the Polyfill.io service after a Chinese company acquired the domain and the script was modified to redirect users to malicious and scam sites. The polyfill.io service is used by hundreds of thousands of sites to allow all visitors to use the same codebase, even if their browsers do not support the same modern features as newer ones.