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.
Cybersecurity professionals were left in the dark as the SolarWinds attack unfolded. Looking at how this could have been prevented, three distinct vulnerabilities stand out.
Vulnerable IT service providers are becoming entry points for supply chain attacks as seen in the recent attack on Wipro. The attack follows closely after Wipro CEO declares "security cannot be a show stopper for business priorities".
Attackers exfiltrated sensitive data from thousands of websites, desktop, and mobile applications in a supply chain attack leveraging typo-squatting in popular NPM packages.
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.
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.
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.
CISA says that SolarWinds hack possibly affected federal, state, and local government agencies and critical infrastructure entities dealing with gas, electricity, and manufacturing.
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.
