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Researchers find 633% increase in cyber-attacks aimed at open source repositories

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Reading Time: 3 Minutes Researchers warn that there has been a 633% year-over-year increase in cyber-attacks launched against open source software repositories.Open source components, frameworks, libraries, and whole platforms are relied upon by organizations during multiple stages of the software development lifecycle. These components provide the lynchpins for communication, software capabilities, security, and user interactions – and as they are developed and reviewed by communities, open source promotes innovation in the software space.

However, the other side of the coin is that open source contributors are volunteers; therefore, security issues can sometimes slip through the net. Furthermore, IT teams may not be aware of what open source software is in use and so they might easily miss patch alerts and upgrades that impact their business.

New research suggests that cyber-attackers – well aware of organizational reliance on open source software – are increasing their attempts to compromise repositories year on year.

According to Sonatype’s 8th Annual State of the Software Supply Chain report, known attacks against open source repositories have increased by 633% year-over-year, and there has been an annual, overall increase of 742% since 2019.

After analyzing data from public and proprietary sources, the software supply chain security firm said that the popularity and growth of open source software continues to climb. The four main ecosystems – Java, JavaScript, Python, and .NET – tied to open source development are set to go beyond three trillion downloads in the near future.

However, this popularity has security ramifications.
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According to the researchers, 1.2 billion Java dependencies known to be vulnerable, for example, are downloaded each month while new, patched, or improved versions are ignored.

Sonatype said this is a prime example of “non-optimal consumption behaviors as the root of open source risk”.

“This is in contrast to public discussion, which often associates security risk with open source maintainers,” the report added.
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Each dependency could contain vulnerabilities, so developers must track potentially thousands of changes per year, per app. Therefore, mistakes will be made.

Brian Fox, co-founder and CTO of Sonatype said that “the overwhelming tide of dependency intelligence that developers must interpret in their daily development process is at odds with prioritizing good software quality”.

It is, therefore, critical that education on the potential risk of outdated, vulnerable open source software is understood, [...]

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and teams should consider adopting automation to lighten the load.

Fox added: “[The] sobering reality demonstrates the immediate need for organizations to prioritize software supply management so that they can better deal with security risk, increase developer efficiency, and enable faster innovation.”


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Working with "signature" headers

When using some public apis, I've seen some that have a "signature" header. In the use cases I've used them in, I'm usually taking my private/secret key of an API key I've generated for the site and signing some info of the request to show I'm really the one making the request. Recently when looking at the network calls for a website, I noticed the requests have a "signature" header with the format:



I'm curious if there is a way to reverse engineer this signature? Is this a standard format? With the signatures I've worked with in the past, I was in possession of a secret key. If there's some kind of key being used here, I'm assuming I should be able to find it as the signature is being generated from the client side.

Is this too difficult a problem to solve/complex enough not to attempt? Are there too many variables to consider (eg which signature method was used, which inputs were used, were inputs converted to Base64, etc)?

I'm guessing part-3is a salt or something, and part-2is the actual signature. Not sure about the other parts though.

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