Linux Security Week: December 19, 2022
Brittany Day
1 - 2 min read
12/19/2022
Happy Monday fellow Linux geeks and Open Source enthusiasts! In this week's newsletter, we cover a new large-scale phishing campaign that has flooded open-source repositories with 144,000 malicious packages. Learn about this attack, so you are better equipped to defend against it and future threats!
In addition, we explain why you can't afford to delay getting started with open source log analytics and monitoring, and introduce several tools that can gather data from server logs, app performance/network traffic monitors, etc. You don't want to miss this information!
Finally, we discuss what you should prioritize in an open-source deception tool and introduce some excellent open-source honeypots you can use to detect threats for free.
Hope you enjoy!
Yours in Open Source,
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Researchers have identified that a massive 144,294 phishing-related packages have been uploaded by unknown threat actors on widely used open-source package repositories including NPM, PyPi, and NuGet. Learn about this large-scale attack so you are better equipped to defend against it, as well as future threats.
