

#44 - Intel Chat: Fake GitHub repos, NPM poison, Vidar, Mac malware, Tsunami DDOS, Cl0p reward, and the EDR killer: Spyboy
Jun 24, 2023
43:29
In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some cutting-edge intel coming out of LimaCharlie's community Slack channel.
- VulnCheck comes across a malicious GitHub repository that is claimed to be a Signal 0-day.
- CheckMarx are reporting that Without altering a single line of code, attackers poisoned the NPM package “bignum” by hijacking a S3 bucket.
- Team CYMRU has released a detailed publication on Vidar infrastructure which encompasses both the primary administrative aspects and the underlying backend.
- Bit Defender Mac researchers stumbled upon a small set of files with backdoor capabilities that seem to form part of a more complex malware toolkit.
- Researchers have found an unofficial package called 'https' that exists on NPM with over 1600 other packages that depend on it.
- An attack campaign that consists of the Tsunami DDoS Bot being installed on inadequately managed Linux SSH servers.
- Cl0p rewards of up to $10 million are being offered by the U.S. State Department's Rewards for Justice program.
- SentinelOne is reporting on the Terminator EDR killer - Spyboy.
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