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The open-source software (OSS) ecosystem suffers from security threats caused by malware.However, OSS malware research has three limitations: a lack of high-quality datasets, a lack of malware diversity, and a lack of attack campaign…

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The widespread adoption of open-source ecosystems enables developers to integrate third-party packages, but also exposes them to malicious packages crafted to execute harmful behavior via public repositories such as PyPI. Existing datasets…

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Open-source software (OSS) is a critical component of modern software systems, yet supply chain security remains challenging in practice due to unavailable or obfuscated source code. Consequently, security teams often rely on runtime…

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A software supply chain attack is characterized by the injection of malicious code into a software package in order to compromise dependent systems further down the chain. Recent years saw a number of supply chain attacks that leverage the…

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Software supply chain attacks have revealed blind spots in existing SCA tools, which are often limited to a single ecosystem and assess either software artifacts or community activity in isolation. This fragmentation across tools and…

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Open-source software supply chain attacks aim at infecting downstream users by poisoning open-source packages. The common way of consuming such artifacts is through package repositories and the development of vetting strategies to detect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Piergiorgio Ladisa , Henrik Plate , Matias Martinez , Olivier Barais , Serena Elisa Ponta

Open-source software (OSS) has become increasingly more popular across different domains. However, this rapid development and widespread adoption come with a security cost. The growing complexity and openness of OSS ecosystems have led to…

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The exponential growth of open-source package ecosystems, particularly NPM and PyPI, has led to an alarming increase in software supply chain poisoning attacks. Existing static analysis methods struggle with high false positive rates and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Xinyi Zheng , Chen Wei , Shenao Wang , Yanjie Zhao , Peiming Gao , Yuanchao Zhang , Kailong Wang , Haoyu Wang

The widespread dependency on open-source software makes it a fruitful target for malicious actors, as demonstrated by recurring attacks. The complexity of today's open-source supply chains results in a significant attack surface, giving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Piergiorgio Ladisa , Henrik Plate , Matias Martinez , Olivier Barais

Malicious Python packages make software supply chains vulnerable by exploiting trust in open-source repositories like Python Package Index (PyPI). Lack of real-time behavioral monitoring makes metadata inspection and static code analysis…

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The increasingly sophisticated environment in which attackers operate makes software security an even greater challenge in open-source projects, where malicious packages are prevalent. Static analysis tools, such as Malcontent, are highly…

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Open source code is considered a common practice in modern software development. However, reusing other code allows bad actors to access a wide developers' community, hence the products that rely on it. Those attacks are categorized as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Chen Tsfaty , Michael Fire

Package managers such as NPM, Maven, and PyPI play a pivotal role in open-source software (OSS) ecosystems, streamlining the distribution and management of various freely available packages. The fine-grained details within software packages…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Xiaoyan Zhou , Feiran Liang , Zhaojie Xie , Yang Lan , Wenjia Niu , Jiqiang Liu , Haining Wang , Qiang Li

Protecting software supply chains from malicious packages is paramount in the evolving landscape of software development. Attacks on the software supply chain involve attackers injecting harmful software into commonly used packages or…

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The NPM ecosystem has become a primary target for software supply chain attacks, yet existing detection tools are evaluated in isolation on incompatible datasets, making cross-tool comparison unreliable. We conduct a benchmark-driven…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Wenbo Guo , Zhongwen Chen , Zhengzi Xu , Chengwei Liu , Ming Kang , Shiwen Song , Chengyue Liu , Yijia Xu , Weisong Sun , Yang Liu

Open-source software (OSS) dependencies introduce systemic risks that are difficult to manage at scale. Existing Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and reachability tools generate severe alert fatigue by treating risk as an intrinsic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Henry Ruckman-Utting , Vrushal Nedungadi , Taiga Okuma , LeTian Wang , Stephen Ehebald , Mohammad A. Tayebi

In Go, the widespread adoption of open-source software has led to a flourishing ecosystem of third-party dependencies, which are often integrated into critical systems. However, the reuse of dependencies introduces significant supply chain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Carmine Cesarano , Vivi Andersson , Roberto Natella , Martin Monperrus

Intrusion detection systems (IDS) monitor system logs and network traffic to recognize malicious activities in computer networks. Evaluating and comparing IDSs with respect to their detection accuracies is thereby essential for their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Max Landauer , Florian Skopik , Maximilian Frank , Wolfgang Hotwagner , Markus Wurzenberger , Andreas Rauber

Throughout computer history, it has been repeatedly demonstrated that critical software vulnerabilities can significantly affect the components involved. In the Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) ecosystem, most software is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Stefan Tatschner , Michael P. Heinl , Nicole Pappler , Tobias Specht , Sven Plaga , Thomas Newe

Recently, the number of malicious open-source packages in package repositories has been increasing dramatically. While major security scanners focus on identifying known Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) in open-source packages,…

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