FBI: Hackers stole government source code via SonarQube instances


The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a flash alert warning of hackers stealing data from U.S. government agencies and enterprise organizations via internet-exposed and insecure SonarQube instances.

SonarQube is an open-source platform for automated code quality auditing and static analysis to discover bugs and security vulnerabilities in projects using 27 programming languages.

Vulnerable SonarQube servers have been actively exploited by attackers since April 2020 to gain access to data source code repositories owned by both government and corporate entities, later exfiltrating it and leaking it publicly.

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Source: Bleeping Computer