A massive supply chain attack had distributed malware to tens of thousands of ASUS computers worldwide through legitimate ASUS software updates. It appears as if the attackers had inside information about ASUS servers and systems.
The SITA incident is a very significant supply chain attack, with a number of major airlines reporting that their frequent flyer programs were compromised as a result of the breach.
It took two months for the public to learn of the Blackbaud ransomware supply chain attack, and has led to data breaches in more than a hundred universities and nonprofit organizations.
Codecov supply chain attack remained undetected for months and likely affected Google, IBM, HP, and others. Hackers stole user data from the company’s continuous integration environment.
Attackers exfiltrated sensitive data from thousands of websites, desktop, and mobile applications in a supply chain attack leveraging typo-squatting in popular NPM packages.
Magecart cybercrime group appears to have broaden their supply chain attacks to target more sites by going after third-party advertising vendors that works with media or entertainment websites.
PHP open-source team averted a potential supply chain attack after hackers compromised their self-managed Git server and inserted malicious code in PHP’s “under development” version.
Hackers timed a supply chain attack to hit when IT workers were off duty. An attack on MSPs making use of Kaseya products is thought to have compromised at least 200 of that company's clients.
Rapid7 says that the Codecov supply chain attack exposed source code repositories for internal tools used for the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service,and a subset of its customers’ data.
The supply chain attack method leverages commonly-used dependency managers and private or non-existent dependencies to install malicious code and backdoors in internal applications.
