N. Korea Group Behind Multiple Open Source Supply-Chain Attacks: Amazon

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Amazon’s recent report attributing a series of compromises of open source software libraries to a North Korea-backed threat group encapsulates many of the expanding cyber risks increasingly facing developers, from the growing use of generative AI by bad actors and targeting of code repositories to financially focused attacks by nation-state hackers and the abuse of trust by development teams. It also is the latest report to point to the group – known by such names as Sapphire Sleet, Stardust Chollima, BlueNoroff, CageyChameleon, and Alluring Pisces – linked to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to supply chain attacks over the past couple of years that involve placing malicious code into packages in the npm repository. “When an attacker compromises a widely used open source package, every organization that depends on that package is potentially affected,” CJ Moses, CISO of Amazon Integrated Security, wrote in the report, adding that they have “observed the volume and sophistication of software supply chain attacks increase, driven in large part by DPRK‑linked threat actors and cybercriminal groups.” Supply chain attacks are increasingly popular because groups that compromise a small number of popular packages can gain access to thousands of downstream operations at the same time, a more efficient process than targeting organizations individually, Moses wrote. North Korea and Package Compromises Others are seeing similar trends. Socket researchers in March noted that the North Korean-linked Famous Chollima – the nation-state actor behind the long-running …

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