RubyGems now requires multi-factor auth for top package maintainers
In 2018, the paper's authors claim, there were 100 million malicious packages that together accounted for 600 million downloads. RubyGems presently containsThe most common supply-chain attack involves typosquatting – submitting malicious packages to registries using names that are substantially similar to popular packages, in the hope of a fat-fingered fiasco by a developer.
But account takeovers offer the opportunity for broader distribution of malware, given a sufficiently popular account. According to the supply-chain attack paper, account takeovers haven't received as much attention as they might due to the code community's focus on security improvements through bug fixes.
"Account hijacking takes place because of weak credentials that attackers can guess and social engineering attacks exploit the collaborative nature of open-source projects as seen in many attacks," the paper's authors, from the Georgia Institute of Technology in the US, explain.
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