Since February of this year, the number of malicious bookmarks in open source codes (Open Source) in Russia has increased by 20 times. The newspaper reports “Kommersan” referring to a large company specializing in cybersecurity.
Kaspersky Lab said it has detected 100 malicious items in foreign open-source software since February. They are placed in different repositories (development repository). These bookmarks are said to contain “provocative content or a call to action”, mostly political texts.
Dmitry Shmoylov, head of Kaspersky Lab’s software security department, said that the main danger of bookmarks is that if malicious code is added to the Open Source project, these elements also apply to solutions from developers using earlier versions.
“If a vendor does not continually verify the open source code used, all users of its product may suffer,” Shmoylov said.
That is, if a threat is placed on more than 100 Open Source solutions, the expert noted, it can infect a large number of programs in all companies that use their elements in their work.
It was previously reported that he was in Russia. discovered A virus that spreads via push notifications.