Supply chain attacks are extremely cheap/easy and very effective, so get prepared for more of them in the future.
It really bothers me, that many companies make billions utilizing open source without contributing money/employees etc. to secure/supply/maintain supply chains.
This one might not have been that cheap. The malicious code was added by a maintainer on the project for two years. That is some patience
Agreed. I am more speaking of 'in general', for example there was a supply chain attack on a widely used npm package by writing an email to the author of the npm package. There are other 'cheap' attacks like dependency confusion, typo squatting etc.
What about finding someone like this and then blackmailing them?
Did they intentionally not put the package name in the headline just to draw more clicks? Ffs
CVE-2024-3094 represents a serious security threat for Pokerogue Fedora Linux 40 and Rawhide users. Promptly updating your system and applying the necessary patches are crucial steps in mitigating this vulnerability.
Me: fixes exposure to vuln
Also me: grabs popcorn
This is going to be an interesting story once this all quiets down...
It says F39 users are not affected. Are you running Rawhide/F40 Beta? p
Running Arch, so not really exposed, but still had a compromised version installed.
Supply chain attacks are extremely cheap/easy and very effective, so get prepared for more of them in the future.
It really bothers me, that many companies make billions utilizing open source without contributing money/employees etc. to secure/supply/maintain supply chains.
This one might not have been that cheap. The malicious code was added by a maintainer on the project for two years. That is some patience
Agreed. I am more speaking of 'in general', for example there was a supply chain attack on a widely used npm package by writing an email to the author of the npm package. There are other 'cheap' attacks like dependency confusion, typo squatting etc.
What about finding someone like this and then blackmailing them?
That would be cheaper
https://xkcd.com/538/
Lol, too true. It's either that or honeytraps
Mandatory XKCD: Dependency
actual link https://xkcd.com/2347/
Happy it doesn’t affect stable versions
Did they intentionally not put the package name in the headline just to draw more clicks? Ffs
CVE-2024-3094 represents a serious security threat for Pokerogue Fedora Linux 40 and Rawhide users. Promptly updating your system and applying the necessary patches are crucial steps in mitigating this vulnerability.