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Review your package dependenciesĭepending on the scope of your project(s) this may be more or less manageable to do manually.
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If you are on the Teams plan you can also get notifications to your own Slack. Make sure that your private registry only allows scanned and secure packages. You can also enable the Secure & Scanned Policies to Let Bytesafe scan your packages for known vulnerabilities and get notifications if something is found. To learn why we recommend using a npm proxy, see the previous post on using and setting up a npm proxy Scan for known vulnerabilities Curate packages (by yourself or your SecOps team).Apply Bytesafe Policies & Plugins to your registries.If you are already using a Bytesafe registry with a public registry configured as an upstream, then you have a npm proxy already! Simply navigate to the registry in Bytesafe to access the overview of all available packages and versions. Knowing about a potential issue and taking action to prevent it is most likely your first (recommended) step.īut how do you visualize all your open source dependencies identify issues?īy using a Bytesafe registry as the source for packages for your organization you get a central registry within your control.Ĭonfigure your Bytesafe registry to pull package versions from a public registry as one of its upstreams and all packages used by your organization will be visualized in the Bytesafe registry.
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Use a npm proxy and visualize your code supply chain How do you restrict malicious packages from being included into your organization’s supply chain?Īs with most security related issues there are no magic fixes, but there are recommended steps to take.
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Or also more targeted at individuals where packages install malicious content into a workstation to look for crypto wallets and send that information to a remote server.Įither way, it is always bad news to install something else than the package you intended… How to protect yourselves? Either as a supply chain attack to get into cryptocurrency exchanges It is also common for packages to target the cryptocurrency segment. You can imagine the consequences when for example a bank unintentionally deploys a package that tracks its customers bank details and sends the data to a remote server. To be on the safe side you need to make sure you are pulling the packages you intended to. Most developers simply don’t consider that the dependencies they rely on could potentially contain malicious content (intentionally or not).īut when installing packages from npm or any other repository you simply manually enter a command in a terminal and the package is automatically installed and added to your workstation. The use of open source components within JavaScript is extensive, and the use of such components from external sources enjoy a remarkable level of trust from developers. With the structure of how you use JavaScript packages and the convenience the public registry brings, this is more true now than ever. Developers are often targeted as they often have goodies such as SSH keys laying around or other stuff that can be misused…
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Typosquatting (and the similar combosquatting) are examples of software supply chain attacks, where malicious packages are published with the intent of free-riding on the trust people put onto their third party components.īy relying on the fact that people make typos all the time and usually don’t deep dive into their dependencies, the intent is getting their packages pulled into your project (supply chain)Īnd use that to get access to whatever system your project is finally deployed to. Now, let’s dive a little deeper and see how common this is and what you can do to prevent this behavior. This is the the account that stored extracted data from usersĪlright, I think you get the picture. Partly as a joke and partly to to see how many would download reavt we published a public react package.įortunately we are good guys, but the same technique is used by bad guys who do the same thing with multiple variations of well-known packages. At the time nothing happened when you tried to install reavt. If you misspell react you easily may type rea vt (as v is next to c on the keyboard).
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A few years ago our team developed a series of web components that extensively used the React library.Īs pretty much every component had this dependency, npm install react was not uncommon.īut what happens when you have “fat fingers”, mistype and misspell when using commands like npm install?
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