AWS Security Blog
Author: Chi Tran
Amazon Inspector detects over 150,000 malicious packages linked to token farming campaign
Amazon Inspector security researchers have identified and reported over 150,000 packages linked to a coordinated tea.xyz token farming campaign in the npm registry. This is one of the largest package flooding incidents in open source registry history, and represents a defining moment in supply chain security, far surpassing the initial 15,000 packages reported by Sonatype […]
Defending against supply chain attacks like Chalk/Debug and the Shai-Hulud worm
Building on top of open source packages can help accelerate development. By using common libraries and modules from npm, PyPI, Maven Central, NuGet, and others, teams can focus on writing code that is unique to their situation. These open source package registries host millions of packages that are integrated into thousands of programs daily. Unfortunately, […]
Identify Java nested dependencies with Amazon Inspector SBOM Generator
Amazon Inspector is an automated vulnerability management service that continually scans Amazon Web Services (AWS) workloads for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure. Amazon Inspector currently supports vulnerability reporting for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, container images stored in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR), and AWS Lambda. Java archive files (JAR, WAR, […]