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Popular PyPI Package ‘ctx’ and PHP Library ‘phpass’ Hijacked to Steal AWS Keys

24
May
2022
Popular PyPI Package ‘ctx’ and PHP Library ‘phpass’ Hijacked to Steal AWS Keys

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Two trojanized Python and PHP packages have been uncovered in what’s yet another instance of a software supply chain attack targeting the open source ecosystem.

One of the packages in question is “ctx,” a Python module available in the PyPi repository. The other involves “phpass,” a PHP package that’s been forked on GitHub to distribute a rogue update.

“In both cases the attacker appears to have taken over packages that have not been updated in a while,” the SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC) said, one of whose volunteer incident handlers, Yee Ching, analyzed the ctx package.

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