Nördnytt! 🤓Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES
- lynndotpy - 62169 sekunder sedanFor anyone confused, this is (very good imo) fiction about supply-chain incidents. It had me very worried during a brief scan that it was real though, which made me read it more attentively :)
- athrowaway3z - 57024 sekunder sedan> Day 1, 14:47 UTC — Among the exfiltrated credentials: the maintainer of vulpine-lz4, a Rust library for “blazingly fast Firefox-themed LZ4 decompression.” The library’s logo is a cartoon fox with sunglasses. It has 12 stars on GitHub but is a transitive dependency of cargo itself.
I got a bit curious and here is an incomplete list of crates to compromise to be part of the cargo build and that already have a build.rs so it doesn't stand out to much:
flate2 tar curl-sys libgit2-sys openssl-sys libsqlite3-sys blake3 libz-sys zstd-sys cc
As a nice bonus - if you get rights for xz2 you can compromise rustup.
Fwiw at least they do track Cargo.lock
- david_shaw - 61854 sekunder sedanIt's easy to be cynical because, yes, both the problems and solutions seem dead obvious in hindsight. But for a long time (and maybe even still), a hacker creed was "move fast and break things."
It's great that there's so much momentum in fixing the glaring problems with supply chain systems like npm, but I'm concerned that we're entering a new era of security-related problems caused in large part by agentic development.
I'm not just talking about Mythos/Glasswing surfacing vulnerabilities in pretty much everything it touches; I think the way we're developing software, pulling in dependencies, and potentially losing human thought modeling of complex systems is going to lead to a lot of hacked together software and infrastructure that humans won't fully understand.
I hope in a few years we don't look back at today and wonder how we could have been so naive -- how we failed to actually plan for the long-tail of AI development in a way that doesn't solve problems by attempting to just use AI to rebuild complex systems.
But the article was funny.
- ObiKenobi - 57865 sekunder sedanThe maintainer of left-justify receives his YubiKey from yubikey-official-store.net. It is a $4 USB drive containing a README that says “lol.”
Got me seriously laughing... Such a troll.
- albert_e - 28772 sekunder sedanBrilliant satire. So many gems.
> CI passed because the malware installed volkswagen
We need this to ocassionally make us stop and think about what we are doing.
- ineedasername - 50099 sekunder sedan>"The legitimate maintainer has won €2.3 million in the EuroMillions and is researching goat farming in Portugal..."
>"Root Cause: A dog named Kubernets ate a Yubikey
Ah, yes, irresponsible to get taken in by one of the well-known classic exploits. The 'ol "distract someone with a lottery windfall & make a dongle irresistibly tasty to another person's pet". When will people learn.
- EdwardDiego - 49035 sekunder sedanAs a Fish aficionado (Afishionado?) - I feel both attacked and seen by this:
> who asked us to clarify that the fish shell is not malware, it just feels that way sometimes.
And unrelated to shells...
> The author would like to remind stakeholders that the security team’s headcount request has been in the backlog since Q1 2023.
I also feel seen by this.
- red_admiral - 62238 sekunder sedanThis is the most SCP thing I've read in a while that's not actually an SCP.
- bpavuk - 55215 sekunder sedanthe Karen one gave me a good laugh :D ;) reminds me of a `make`-based build script I once got when reviewing a classmate's project - it attempted to `rm -rf` my home folder if the hostname contains `bpavuk`. that was in seventh grade!!
- freakynit - 9082 sekunder sedanRoot Cause: "A dog named Kubernetes ate a YubiKey."
Technically... that's not even a joke... that really is what kicked off this entire chain of events lol.
This post reads like an actual movie lol. Someone seriously needs to make one based on this.
It has everything:
the missing key that starts the chaos, the scam nobody sees coming, one tiny mistake turning into a full-on domino disaster, sleep-deprived people making very confident bad decisions, the guy who disappeared to a farm living his best life while holding a critical piece of the puzzle... and somehow, in the final act, a completely unrelated villain accidentally saves everyone.
Imma 100% watch it..
- vsgherzi - 63769 sekunder sedanSupply chain incidents suck and we need to do better. Personally for rust I’m a proponent of the foundation supporting a few core crates that go under the same audit procedure as the main rust language and give funding to the project to limit supply chain vulns. I don’t think the right answer is to remove systems like crates or npm. Crate and npm are a boon for many developers.
- mac3n - 57508 sekunder sedangood thing I don't use npm or pip, just the recommended
curl ... | bash - wodahs1 - 53804 sekunder sedanMaintainer uses AI to find Yubikey's site.
Hacker uses AI to research countries without extradition to US.
Cops use AI to analyze ransom note. Unfortunately, because the note confidently states that Vietnam has no extradition to the US, the AI recommends paying ransom.
Vietnam's currency, the Dong, confused the AI..
- jruohonen - 12150 sekunder sedanIf this:
"... old laptop, and 'something Kubernetes threw up that looked important' were stolen from his apartment ..."
was related to:
"... enters his nmp credentials on the phishing site ..."
Then I suppose it is really interesting.
- simon84 - 12098 sekunder sedanLink this with the fact that anyone can use any name/email in commits and appear as the legitimate contributor on GitHub and it completes the chain. Love it :)
- swiftcoder - 59875 sekunder sedanVery enjoyable read, entirely too close to the mark
- notnmeyer - 55950 sekunder sedanthe fact that this could easily pass as real says a lot about the state of things.
- abbaselmas - 14612 sekunder sedanA clickbait title should be: "A dog named Kubernetes ate a YubiKey."
- lschueller - 51873 sekunder sedanPlease someone make a mockumentary out of this.
- nikanj - 62231 sekunder sedanCustomers give us heat for not shipping the latest vulpine-lz4. Their AI-based heuristic antivirus total defence solution automatically flags all software not running latest versions of everything
Kindly advice
- f4c39012 - 52465 sekunder sedan'The changelog reads “performance improvements.”' was the truest part for me. Surely what we're releasing is the most fundamental thing to understand, yet almost every single app update I see is this or something jokey that really means "don't know" or "don't care"
- danielfalbo - 62055 sekunder sedanabsolutely hilarious, made me laugh a lot. thank you for writing this, whether human or AI.
- baq - 10127 sekunder sedanmy sides
the kubernetes reveal had me literally in tears
- mrinterweb - 29190 sekunder sedanleft-justify !! LOL. History really does repeat its self. Remember left-pad supply chain security panic?
- bakugo - 51925 sekunder sedan> Day 1, 03:14 UTC — Marcus Chen, maintainer of left-justify
The dreaded Marcus Chen strikes again.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1o3b4q2/just_rece...
- TZubiri - 59354 sekunder sedanThis would have been completely avoided if you were using bun dependency vector locking in Nix.
- danilocesar - 61707 sekunder sedanThis week has been tough. Is it the begging of CVEgeddon?
- worthless-trash - 24680 sekunder sedanNot a valid CVE number.
- bklosky - 54708 sekunder sedanAccording to Pangram, this is likely AI generated, surprised that no one has pointed this out
- somebudyelse - 57899 sekunder sedanToo soon
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- quxuejun - 36520 sekunder sedannice
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- yieldcrv - 57984 sekunder sedan> unrelated security researcher publishes a blog post titled “I found a supply chain attack and reported it to all the wrong people.”
ahahaha like that fiverr cloudinary bucket leak that turned out to just be a UX issue, this has me rolling
- ck2 - 57674 sekunder sedanimagine a future where white-hat vs black-hat "AI" go around the web trying to patch vs exploit 0-days
and then become aware of each other
and then try to eliminate each other for decades
each escalating resource capture and writing new generations of better "AI"
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