Josh and Kurt talk about an attack against PyTorch and NPM. The PyTorch attack shows the difficulty of trying to operate a large open source project. The NPM problem is one of the difficulty in trying to backdoor open source. A lot of people are watching and it only takes one person to notice a problem and we all benefit.
Show Notes * Peanut Butter the dog plays Gyromite * The Wizard movie * PyTorch supply chain attack * npm Package Found Delivering Sophisticated RAT * Deceptive Deprecation: The Truth About npm Deprecated Packages * Changing a lightbulb * Spelunking the Bitcoin Blockchain with Josh Bressers | CypherCon 4.0 * Operation Triangulation - What You Get When Attack iPhones of Researchers * 9th Annual State of the Software Supply Chain