Backdoor slips into popular code library, drains ~$155k from digital wallets

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• dhork@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Socket, a security firm that helps detect supply-chain attacks, said the back door is “believed to be the result of a social engineering/phishing attack targeting maintainers of the official Web3.js open source library maintained by Solana.”

  That’s super interesting. From the sound of it, the Maintainers must have been targeted to force a malicious Pull Request to be accepted. That article showed some of the code from the commit. I am not a Solana developer but understood enough to know what it was doing and that no maintainer should have approved it willingly.

  I wonder if those maintainers will end up having any liability for the hack.

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• demesisx@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Solana! 😂😂

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  • dhork@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It truly is SOL

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• NGnius@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Victims are all SOL, in more ways than one

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