State of the Software Supply Chain

Threat actors gained access to SolarWinds dev infrastructure, and injected malicious code into Orion update binaries. 18,000 customers automatically pulled trojanized updates, planting backdoors into their systems and allowing bad actors to exploit private networks at will.

Three days after news broke of an ethical researcher hacking over 35 big tech firms in a novel supply-chain attack, more than 300 malicious copycat attacks were recorded. Within one month, more than 10,000 namespace confusion copycats had infiltrated npm and other ecosystems.

An attacker was able to gain access to a credential via a mistake in how Codecov were building Docker images. This credential then let them modify Codecov’s bash uploader script which was either used directly by customers or via Codecov’s other uploaders like their Github Action. The attacker used this modified script to steal credentials from the CI environments of customers using it.

The weekend after launching, WinGet's software registry was flooded with pull requests for apps that were either duplicates or malformed. Some newly added duplicate packages were corrupted and ended up overwriting the existing packages, raising serious concerns about the integrity of the WinGet ecosystem.

A ransomware group discovered and exploited a zero-day vulnerability in a remote monitoring and management software platform used by dozens of managed security providers (MSP). Because these MSPs service thousands of downstream customers, the hackers were able to conduct a ransomware attack against 1,500 victims.