Security News

Fujitsu pulls ProjectWEB tool offline after apparent supply chain attack sees Japanese infosec agency data stolen
2021-05-27 12:29

A Fujitsu project management suite is causing red faces at the Japanese company's HQ after "Unauthorised access" resulted in data being stolen from government agencies, local reports say. The firm's ProjectWEB tool was reportedly accessed by an unidentified "Third party" who helped themself to data from, among others, Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, its Cabinet Office Cyber Security Centre and the Ministry of Land.

Top application security challenges: Bad bots, broken APIs, and supply chain attacks
2021-05-21 04:30

Vanson Bourne surveyed 750 application security decision makers responsible for their organization's application development and security to get their perspectives on data breaches, top application security vulnerabilities, and the most important product capabilities needed to defend against multi-vector application attacks. Overall, the findings indicate that more needs to be done to protect against application security threats, particularly newer threats like bot attacks, API attacks, and supply chain attacks.

Us? Pwn SolarWinds? With our reputation? Russian spy chief makes laughable denial of supply chain attack
2021-05-18 17:42

A Russian spymaster has denied that his agency carried out the infamous SolarWinds supply chain attack in a public relations move worthy of the Internet Research Agency. Sergei Naryshkin, head of the SVR spy agency, made his denial in a BBC interview broadcast on Tuesday.

UK govt seeks advice on defending against supply-chain cyberattacks
2021-05-17 16:48

Today, the UK government has announced a call for advice on defending against software supply-chain attacks and ways to strengthen IT Managed Service Providers across the country. The move comes after last week when President Biden had issued an executive order to increase cybersecurity defenses across the U.S. The government's invitation to provide feedback that will be open for almost two months comes at a time of prominent cyberattacks such as, the Colonial Pipeline incident, the Codecov supply-chain attack, and ransomware attacks on mission-critical organizations [1, 2] that continue to grow.

ReversingLabs announces REVERSING2021 software supply chain virtual roadshow
2021-05-17 02:30

Addressing Fortune 500 business concerns, this virtual series will provide the supply chain analysis of the SunBurst compromise, while offering attendees new approaches and immediate actions they can take to mitigate future unknown software supply chain attacks. "Our team led the charge in dissecting the supply chain portion of this incident and introducing new approaches that businesses can use to detect and prevent future software supply chain attacks. Through this roadshow, our experts will help attendees better understand the anatomy of a supply chain attack and receive prescriptive recommendations to stop this kind of compromise."

Rapid7 Source Code Breached in Codecov Supply-Chain Attack
2021-05-14 00:02

Cybersecurity company Rapid7 on Thursday revealed that unidentified actors improperly managed to get hold of a small portion of its source code repositories in the aftermath of the software supply chain compromise targeting Codecov earlier this year. "A small subset of our source code repositories for internal tooling for our service was accessed by an unauthorized party outside of Rapid7," the Boston-based firm said in a disclosure.

Rapid7 source code, credentials accessed in Codecov supply-chain attack
2021-05-13 19:56

US cybersecurity firm Rapid7 has disclosed that some source code repositories were accessed in a security incident linked to the supply-chain attack that recently impacted customers of the popular Codecov code coverage tool. Only internal credentials and tooling source code accessed.

Rapid7 Source Code Exposed in Codecov Supply Chain Attack
2021-05-13 18:59

Rapid7 says unauthorized third-party accessed source code, customer data during Codecov supply chain breach. Enterprise security vendor Rapid7 says it was among the victims of the Codecov software supply chain attack and warned Thursday that data for a subset of its customers was accessed in the breach.

3 areas of implicitly trusted infrastructure that can lead to supply chain compromises
2021-05-13 05:30

Each one of these supply chain attacks targeted a different piece of implicitly trusted infrastructure-infrastructure that you may or not be paying attention to as a potential target in your organization. Package squatting via software package repositories.

HackerOne partners with SecurityScorecard to evaluate corporate and supply chain cyber risk
2021-05-12 23:15

HackerOne and SecurityScorecard announced an integrated solution that uses hacker-powered security signals and data as a leading indicator for evaluating corporate and supply chain cyber risk. By seamlessly integrating the HackerOne API into the SecurityScorecard platform, users will now be able to showcase their bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure efforts in their scorecards and gain visibility into how their suppliers and partners are deploying these programs within their own environments.