Bookmarks tagged “security”

51 bookmarks tagged “security”

I discovered a large-scale malware distribution on GitHub

I discovered a large-scale malware distribution on GitHub

· orchidfiles.com

This is the story of how I found 10,000 repositories on GitHub that distribute Trojan malware. They are all from different contributors, have different names, and are not forks of other repositories. But they share a common pattern, which is what allowed me to write a script to f

JSON Hijacking | You’ve Been Haacked

JSON Hijacking | You’ve Been Haacked

· haacked.com

A while back I wrote about a subtle JSON vulnerability which could result in the disclosure of sensitive information. That particular exploit involved overriding the JavaScript Array constructor to disclose the payload of a JSON array, something which most browsers do not support