The Last Watchdog: RSAC insights: Software tampering escalates as bad actors take advantage of ‘dependency confusion’

Looked at from one angle, the recent attack on JumpCloud, a cloud-based identity and access management provider, was unsurprising.

Threat researchers at ReversingLabs, a software supply chain security and malware analysis platform, have discovered a malicious new PyPI package dubbed VMConnect on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new bunch of malicious packages on the npm package registry that are designed to exfiltrate sensitive developer information.