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i always worry about tools like this, maintained by small teams, that are so universal that even if only a small fraction of installs are somehow co-opted by malicious actors, you have a wide open attack surface on most tech companies. e.g. iTerm, Cyberduck, editors of all shades, various VSCode extensions, etc.
Wow. I'd love to know more how the targeted systems were actually compromised.
i always worry about tools like this, maintained by small teams, that are so universal that even if only a small fraction of installs are somehow co-opted by malicious actors, you have a wide open attack surface on most tech companies. e.g. iTerm, Cyberduck, editors of all shades, various VSCode extensions, etc.
This all fascinating, but in the end: I have notepad++; what should I do?
I subscribe to MacPaw, who makes excellent apps like Setapp, Gemini, and CleanMyMac, all of which I use.
At some point, CleanMyMac started putting the Ukranian flag on the app icon and flagging utilities by any Russian developer as untrustworthy (because they are russian), and recommended that I uninstall them.
I am not pro russia/anti-ukraine independence by any means, but CleanMyMac is one of those apps that require elevated system permissions. Seeing them engage in software maccarythism makes me very, very hesitant to provide them.
So the hosting provider was hacked? Who was their hosting provider? This is also why update signatures should be validated against a different server; it would require hackers to control bother servers to go undetected
No, it should be a hardcoded key held by the developer, preferably using a HSM, and maybe with some sort of notification capability in case the key was lost. Adding a second server adds marginal security. For instance if the developer's mail was hacked, an attacker would likely be able to reset passwords for both hosting providers.