most citedOn the Feasibility of Cross-Language Detection of Malicious Packages in npm and PyPI

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cs.CR2023★ 22 cited

On the Feasibility of Cross-Language Detection of Malicious Packages in npm and PyPI

Piergiorgio Ladisa, Serena Elisa Ponta, Nicola Ronzoni +2

Current software supply chains heavily rely on open-source packages hosted in public repositories. Given the popularity of ecosystems like npm and PyPI, malicious users started to…

cs.CR2023★ 12 cited

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Malicious Third-Party Dependencies

Piergiorgio Ladisa, Merve Sahin, Serena Elisa Ponta +3

The increasing popularity of certain programming languages has spurred the creation of ecosystem-specific package repositories and package managers. Such repositories (e.g., npm, P…

cs.CR2023

Journey to the Center of Software Supply Chain Attacks

Piergiorgio Ladisa, Serena Elisa Ponta, Antonino Sabetta +2

This work discusses open-source software supply chain attacks and proposes a general taxonomy describing how attackers conduct them. We then provide a list of safeguards to mitigat…

cs.CR2022

Towards the Detection of Malicious Java Packages

Piergiorgio Ladisa, Henrik Plate, Matias Martinez +2

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 reposit…

cs.CR2022

Taxonomy of Attacks on Open-Source Software Supply Chains

Piergiorgio Ladisa, Henrik Plate, Matias Martinez +1

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 suppl…