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New Log4j 1.x CVEs, and critical Chainsaw vulnerability — What to do?

In January 2022, Apache disclosed 3 vulnerabilities impacting Log4j 1.x versions.

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Log4j exploits are now being used to spread Dridex banking Trojan

As the Log4j vulnerability disclosures come out, and ongoing exploitation in the wild is on, we have been closely monitoring developments and tracking the gap between the disclosures and how fast the

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Log4shell by the numbers- Why did CVE-2021-44228 set the internet on fire?

On Friday, the news broke about Log4Shell, an easy-to-exploit vulnerability being exploited across the world. We have kept our blog up to date with the latest news, mitigations and strategies that

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What is the Log4j exploit?

Critical new 0-day vulnerability in popular Log4j library discovered with evidence of mass scanning for affected applications

News broke early Friday morning of a serious 0-day remote code execution

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Malware

Tracking the 'Noblox.js' npm malware campaign

A new malicious package, noblox.js-rpc was spotted on the npm registry this month that leverages the same techniques we saw before to steal all sorts of sensitive data like credentials, files, and

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npm hijackers at it again: Popular 'coa' and 'rc' open source libraries taken over to spread malware

Just last week we saw the popular npm package `ua-parser-js` get hijacked. Malicious actors gained access to the project maintainer's npm account and published malicious versions that attempted to

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Fake npm Roblox API package installs ransomware and has a spooky surprise

The world was just coming to terms with the "ua-parser-js" npm library hijacking incident, and Sonatype's discovery of crypto-mining malware from last week, when we found a bigger, and spookier,

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Popular npm project used by millions hijacked in supply-chain attack

Last week, Sonatype reported our discovery of three malicious npm cryptomining packages on npm: klow, klown, and okhsa. These packages, which infiltrated the npm registry between October 12 and 15,

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Newly found npm malware mines cryptocurrency on Windows, Linux, macOS devices

Sonatype's automated malware detection system has caught multiple malicious packages on the npm registry this month. These packages disguise themselves as legitimate JavaScript libraries but were

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From feature to vulnerability: A Spring-Security-oauth2-Client story

Spring Security provides security services for the Spring IO Platform, available on their GitHub repository. Today we focus on the "oauth2" client, which provides an application with the capability

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Linux & Mac Malware Bundled within Browserify npm Brandjack Attempt

Damaging Linux and Mac malware bundled within Browserify npm brandjack attempt

Over the weekend, Sonatype spotted a rather unique malware sample published to the npm registry, within a day of its release on npm.

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CVE-2021-22114 Spring-integration-zip

Deep diving into CVE-2021-22114 spring-integration-zip path traversal

Guess who's back? Earlier this month, CVE-2021-22114 in spring-integration-zip, returned for the second time to cause havoc.

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Netmask flaw leaves millions vulnerable while a PHP Git server is hacked in software supply chain attack

We've seen so many software supply chain attacks in recent weeks that it's hard for us to talk about all of them. But, in the last 24 hours, we've seen two major issues that are important for

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