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Backdoored Python Library Caught Stealing SSH Credentials

posted by Fnord666 on Friday May 11 2018, @09:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the another-day-another-hack dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Barely a week has passed from the last attempt to hide a backdoor in a code library, and we have a new case today. This time around, the backdoor was found in a Python module, and not an npm (JavaScript) package.

The module's name is SSH Decorator (ssh-decorate), developed by Israeli developer Uri Goren, a library for handling SSH connections from Python code.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/backdoored-python-library-caught-stealing-ssh-credentials/

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  • (Score: 2) by pkrasimirov on Saturday May 12 2018, @04:47PM (2 children)

    by pkrasimirov (3358) Subscriber Badge on Saturday May 12 2018, @04:47PM (#678866)

    Repo is down, anybody has it to do a git blame? Any name from the commit? TFA says it was introduced after v.0.27

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  • (Score: 2) by pkrasimirov on Saturday May 12 2018, @04:52PM

    by pkrasimirov (3358) Subscriber Badge on Saturday May 12 2018, @04:52PM (#678867)

    Ah wait, me stupid. It was never commited in git lol, only in binary (pypi.org).

    https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vjUIkPX1-0EJ:https://github.com/urigoren/ssh_decorator/issues/11+ [googleusercontent.com]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 12 2018, @04:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 12 2018, @04:55PM (#678869)

    Repo is down, anybody has it to do a git blame? Any name from the commit? TFA says it was introduced after v.0.27

    Yeah, because that can't be faked? Only way to have real stuff there is to SIGN YOUR COMMITS! (or even release tags).