Showing posts with label third party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label third party. Show all posts

Monday, October 16, 2017

Yes, folks, supply chain risks through third party libraries is a thing...

Yes, folks, supply chain risks through third parties is a thing... 

And at a banking site to boot: https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/equifax-transunion-websites-served-up-adware-malware-a-10379

Well, not really banking, credit reporting services, like Equifax or Transunion,  are using code for web reporting.

It's kinda malvertising, where the site has links that go outside, but I think it's include files, that go to a site on the fly, which is compromised, and serving up fake flash malware, which in this case is Adware.Eorezo.

There's also talk about third party providers in general https://www.pymnts.com/news/b2b-payments/2017/bitsight-financial-services-face-third-party-cybersecurity-risk/


Malwarebytes is quoted multiple times and has a good blog post https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2017/10/equifax-transunion-websites-push-fake-flash-player/