Industrial computing systems at risk from “time bombs ” in malicious NuGet packages


Thousands of critical infrastructure organizations, as well as those working in other, equally important verticals, were targeted by a perfidious attack that sought to sabotage their industrial control devices (ICD) two years down the line, experts have discovered.

Cybersecurity researchers Socket recently found nine packages on NuGet that contained sabotage payloads set to activate in 2027 and 2028, if certain conditions were met. NuGet is the package manager for .NET, providing open source .NET libraries which software developers can easily integrate in their projects.

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