“Looking at it a different way, it also indicates that in one year alone, we’ve seen twice as many supply chain attacks to the cumulative numbers in previous years,” Sonatype said in its annualState of the Software Supply Chain report. “This pace of growth is astonishing....
An open-source software supply chain attack is a cybersecurity threat where attackers infiltrate software systems by exploiting vulnerabilities in the open-source components the software relies on. In the first half of 2023, several attacks specifically targeting the banking sector were detected by Chec...
Attackers are increasingly targeting open source projects, seeking to exploit holes in software that millions of organizations rely on as the foundation of their technology stacks. The staggering 280% year-over-year increase in software supply chain attacks in 2023 serves as a stark warning: open ...
Because many felt that Stallman’s term “free software” inaptly emphasized “free of cost” as the principal value of the software, the term “open source” was adopted in 1999. The Open Source Initiative (OCI) was created to advocate for it; the organization also has established ground r...
. Open source software supply chain attacks are comparable to the problem of vulnerable open source packages which may pass their vulnerability to dependent software projects. This is known as one of the OWASP Top-10 application security risks [31]. However, in case of supply chain attacks, ...
Software supply chain attacks are expected to increase in 2025 due to the growing reliance on open source libraries and the rise of sophisticated attack methods like phishing and social engineering. According to a study bySynopsys, vulnerabilities in open source software are steadily increasing. Additi...
A software supply chain attack is characterized by the injection of malicious code into a software package in order to compromise dependent systems further down the chain. Recent years saw a number of supply chain attacks that leverage the increasing use of open source during software development, ...
Part 1: Understanding the software supply chain In 2021, the world suddenly came up to speed on the scale and impact of open source software. While many outside of tech had never heard the tales of software eating the world, the wide usage of the open source Java logging library, Log4j,...
Reproducible builds (R-Bs) are software engineering practices that reliably create bit-for-bit identical binary executable files from specified source code
The Linux Foundation Open Source Summit North America entitled The Simple, Yet Lethal, Anatomy of a Software Supply Chain Attack presented byJossef Harush, Head of Engineering of Supply Chain Security at Checkmarx. Additionally you can download theUnderstanding Open Source Supply Chain Attacks ...