{"id":5165,"date":"2025-08-08T12:11:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/rubygems-pypi-hit-by-malicious-packages-stealing-credentials-crypto-forcing-security-changes\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T12:11:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:11:34","slug":"rubygems-pypi-hit-by-malicious-packages-stealing-credentials-crypto-forcing-security-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/rubygems-pypi-hit-by-malicious-packages-stealing-credentials-crypto-forcing-security-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"RubyGems, PyPI Hit by Malicious Packages Stealing Credentials, Crypto, Forcing Security Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA fresh set of 60 malicious packages has been uncovered targeting the RubyGems ecosystem by posing as seemingly innocuous automation tools for social media, blogging, or messaging services to steal credentials from unsuspecting users.<br \/>\nThe activity is assessed to be active since at least March 2023, according to the software supply chain security company Socket. Cumulatively, the gems have been\u00a0A fresh set of 60 malicious packages has been uncovered targeting the RubyGems ecosystem by posing as seemingly innocuous automation tools for social media, blogging, or messaging services to steal credentials from unsuspecting users.<br \/>\nThe activity is assessed to be active since at least March 2023, according to the software supply chain security company Socket. Cumulatively, the gems have been\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA fresh set of 60 malicious packages has been uncovered targeting the RubyGems ecosystem by posing as seemingly innocuous automation tools for social media, blogging, or messaging services to steal credentials from unsuspecting users. The activity is assessed to be active since at least March 2023, according to the software supply chain security company Socket.&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/rubygems-pypi-hit-by-malicious-packages-stealing-credentials-crypto-forcing-security-changes\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RubyGems, PyPI Hit by Malicious Packages Stealing Credentials, Crypto, Forcing Security Changes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}