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Dev Corrupts NPM Libs ‘colors’ and ‘faker’ Breaking Thousands of Apps Users of popular open-source libraries ‘colors’ and ‘faker’ were left stunned after they saw their applications, using these libraries, printing gibberish data and breaking. Some surmised if the NPM libraries had been compromised, but it turns out there’s much more to the story. The developer
Trojanized DnSpy App Drops Malware Cocktail on Researchers, Devs Hackers targeted cybersecurity researchers and developers this week in a sophisticated malware campaign distributing a malicious version of the dnSpy .NET application to install cryptocurrency stealers, remote access trojans, and miners. dnSpy is a popular debugger and .NET assembly editor used to debug, modify, and decompile
Rapid Window Title Changes Cause ‘white screen of death’ Experimentation with ANSI escape characters on terminal emulators has led to the discovery of multiple high-severity DoS (denial of service) vulnerabilities on Windows terminals and Chrome-based web browsers. Eviatar Gerzi, a security researcher at CyberArk, has tried out various potential abuse pathways based on an old 2003
The Week in Ransomware – January 7th 2022 – Watch Out for USB drives With the holidays these past two weeks, there have been only a few known ransomware attacks and little research released. At the end of December, a new enterprise-targeting ransomware operation called Night Sky was launched, but it is not very active so far.