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This Week in Malware - Almost 100 Packages

September 16, 2022
By Aaron Linskens

2 minute read time

This week in malware, we discovered and analyzed over seven dozen packages flagged as malicious, suspicious, or dependency confusion attacks.

Malicious Packages Caught by Sonatype

We caught the following this week via Sonatype's automated malware detection system, offered as part of Sonatype Firewall:

These discoveries follow our report last week of dependency confusion candidates published as proof-of-concept (PoC) exercises by security enthusiasts and bug bounty hunters.

Turn on Sonatype Firewall for Automatic Protection

As a DevSecOps organization, we remain committed to identifying and halting attacks, such as those mentioned above, against open source developers and the wider software supply chain.

Users of Sonatype Firewall can rest easy knowing that such malicious packages would automatically be blocked from reaching their development builds.

Sonatype Firewall instances will automatically quarantine any suspicious components detected by our automated malware detection systems, while a researcher is in progress, thereby keeping your software supply chain protected from the start.

Sonatype's world-class security research data, combined with our automated malware detection technology, protects your developers, customers, and software supply chain from infections.

Written by Aaron Linskens
Aaron is a technical writer at Sonatype. He works at a crossroads of technical writing, developer advocacy, and information design. He aims to get developers and non-technical collaborators to work better together in solving problems and building software.