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ashishbijlani

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About ashishbijlani

PhD in Cybersecurity/Operating Systems from Georgia Tech

Building https://packj.dev - a security firewall for your open-source dependencies to protect against typo-squatting, dependency confusion, and Solarwinds-like supply-chain attacks: https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj

Creator of ExtFUSE (eBPF + FUSE) and SandFS [available for consulting]: https://github.com/extfuse/extfuse https://github.com/sandfs/sandfs.github.io

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    I've been building an OSS tool to detect software supply-chain attacks: https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj Packj uses static+dynamic code/behavioral analysis to scan for indica…

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    Built Packj [1] to audit dependencies easily from CLI. 1. Packj ( https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj ) detects malicious PyPI/NPM/Ruby/PHP/etc. dependencies using behavioral an…

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    Comment #47969678

    Built Packj [1] to do exactly this. 1. Packj ( https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj ) detects malicious PyPI/NPM/Ruby/PHP/etc. dependencies using behavioral analysis. It uses sta…

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    Comment #46917265

    This is a great initiative. Thanks for sharing! I will use it to create my personal cache of package registries (beyond obvious advantages of caching, it can also mitigate typo-squ…

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    Comment #45611100

    I’m extending Packj sandbox for agentic code execution [1]. You can specify allowlist for network/fs. 1. https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj/blob/main/packj/sandb...

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    Comment #45328564

    Plug: I've been building a tool to detect software supply-chain cyberattacks: https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj Packj uses static+dynamic code/behavioral analysis to scan for …

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    Comment #45170190

    Packj [1] detects malicious PyPI/NPM/Ruby/PHP/etc. dependencies using behavioral analysis. It uses static+dynamic code analysis to scan for indicators of compromise (e.g., spawning…

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    Comment #43880938

    Plug: I've been building a similar tool: https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj Packj uses static+dynamic code/behavioral analysis to scan for indicators of compromise (e.g., spawn…

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    Comment #43560650

    Hi Abhishek, the backtracking feature looks super useful. Congrats on launching!

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    Comment #43417574

    Not for contributions only, but developing ExtFUSE [1] got me a lot of offers and consulting work. 1. https://github.com/extfuse/extfuse optimizes FUSE with eBPF

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    Comment #42420762

    > If the tech is open-sourced, then an attacker can keep trying in private until they find an exploit, and then use it. So you'd rather assume that if something is obscure, it is s…

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    Comment #42420597

    We scan PyPI packages regularly for malware to provide a private registry of vetted packages. The tech is open-sourced: Packj [1]. It uses static+dynamic code/behavioral analysis t…

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    Comment #42353524

    This is exactly why I'm building Packj audit [1]. It detects malicious PyPI/NPM/Ruby/PHP/etc. dependencies using behavioral analysis. It uses static+dynamic code analysis to scan f…

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    Comment #42209837

    Good to see Packj[1] as one of the malware scanners used. 1. https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj Packj detects malicious PyPI/NPM/Ruby/PHP/etc. dependencies using behavioral ana…

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    Comment #40527460

    Plug: I’ve been building Packj [1] to detect malicious PyPI/NPM/Ruby/PHP/etc. dependencies using behavioral analysis. It uses static+dynamic code analysis to scan for indicators of…

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    Comment #39880705

    I’ve been building Packj [1] to detect malicious PyPI/NPM/Ruby/PHP/etc. dependencies using behavioral analysis. It uses static+dynamic code analysis to scan for indicators of compr…

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    Comment #39857568

    I’ve been building Packj [1] to detect such attacks. Packj can flag malicious, abandoned, typo-squatting, and other "risky" PyPI/NPM/Ruby/PHP dependencies. We use static, dynamic, …

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    Comment #39548885

    I’ve been building an open-source tool Packj [1] to detect publicly malicious, abandoned, typo-squatting, and other "risky" PyPI/NPM/Ruby/PHP/Maven/Rust packages. It carries out st…

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    Comment #39058222

    > For how to know you can trust a dependency, I'm afraid there is no solution: no theorem prover nor isolation, cryptography nor layerizarion can save you. I'm taking a stab at add…

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    Comment #38642308

    Plug: we've been building Packj [1] to detect malicious Python/NPM/Ruby/Rust/Java/PHP packages. It carries out static/dynamic/metadata analysis to look for "suspicious” attributes …

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    Comment #38602184

    Cool project! Are you fetching app metadata from Google Playstore in real-time or you've cached data of all Android apps on your server already?

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    Comment #38271841

    Creator of Packj [1] here. How do you envision sandboxing/security policies will be specified? Per-lib policies when you've hundreds of dependencies will become overwhelming. Havin…

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    Comment #38262602

    I’ve been building Packj [1] to detect publicly UNKNOWN dummy, malicious, abandoned, typo-squatting, and other "risky" PyPI/NPM/Ruby/PHP/Maven/Rust packages. It carries out static/…

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    Plug: we've been building Packj [1] to detect malicious Python/NPM/Ruby/Rust/Java/PHP packages. It carries out static/dynamic/metadata analysis to look for "suspicious” attributes …