Risky Business Podcast: How Socket Combats Malware in Open S...
Blog post from Socket
The Risky Business podcast episode, featuring Socket CEO Feross Aboukhadijeh, addresses the challenges of detecting and managing malicious packages in public code repositories, highlighting the inadequacies of traditional Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools. Feross discusses how Socket is actively identifying and reporting approximately 100 malicious packages weekly across various ecosystems such as JavaScript, Python, and Go, with the packages subsequently being removed from registries. However, the absence of a notification system for previously installed malicious packages and their exclusion from the GitHub Advisory database poses a persistent problem. Socket offers tools to block these packages, providing users with visibility and alerts for any malicious code in their open-source usage. This proactive approach contrasts with the traditional reliance on vulnerabilities being added to databases, which is insufficient for preventing malware and supply chain attacks.
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