Recent incidents have proven that Continuous Integration (CI) workflows are the new battleground for software supply chain attacks. Security Pitfalls in GitHub Actions workflows, such as the unsanitized use of pull request (PR) data, can allow attackers to execute malicious code during CI runs with devastating consequences. For example, the high-profile “S1ngularity” attack on the …
The JFrog Security Research team has recently discovered and reported a leaked access token with administrator access to Python’s, PyPI’s and Python Software Foundation’s GitHub repositories, which was leaked in a public Docker container hosted on Docker Hub. As a community service, the JFrog Security Research team continuously scans public repositories such as Docker Hub, …
Always a concern for DevOps teams, security has now become a critical part of developing and releasing software – a reality reflected on the sharp increase in JFrog blogs about DevSecOps. In fact, we generated so many hard-hitting and instructive blogs about security and compliance in 2021 that we decided our DevSecOps coverage deserved its …
One of the most worrisome trends in cybersecurity today is the skyrocketing incidence of supply chain attacks, such as the ones that hit SolarWinds last year and Kaseya more recently. Because they focus on compromising software development and delivery, supply chain attacks have forced developers and DevOps teams to scramble for solutions. Unfortunately, supply chain …
Recently, a novel supply chain attack was published by security researcher Alex Birsan, detailing how dependency confusion (or “namesquatting“) in package managers can be misused in order to execute malicious code on production and development systems. Background – dependency confusion & Birsan’s attack In short, most package managers such as pip and npm do not …
