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What would it take to get you kids into a nice, late-model malware mealkit?
Oct 31, 2023
Insights from a cybersecurity workforce study. Malicious packages attached to NuGet. Russia developing its own substitute for VirusTotal. Cheap turnkey malware kits. The growing cybersecurity workforce gap. President Biden's Executive Order on AI. The significance of multi-factor authentication.
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- Malicious packages are being published to the NuGet package manager using a unique code execution technique.
- Russia is creating a security package as a substitute for Virus Total, with a focus on protecting user data from western tools.
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Malicious packages found on NuGet
Researchers at Reversing Labs have discovered several hundred malicious packages published to the NuGet package manager since the beginning of August. These packages utilized a unique code execution technique by placing malicious functionality inside the package ID.targets file instead of the typical PowerShell scripts.
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