Conditions préalables
An adversary would need to have access to a targeted developer’s development environment and in particular to tools used to design, create, test and manage software, where the adversary could ensure malicious code is included in software packages built through alteration or substitution of tools in the environment used in the development of software.
Compétences requises
Ability to leverage common delivery mechanisms (e.g., email attachments, removable media) to infiltrate a development environment to gain access to software development tools for the purpose of malware insertion into an existing tool or replacement of an existing tool with a maliciously altered copy.
Atténuations
Have a security concept of operations (CONOPS) for the development environment that includes: Maintaining strict security administration and configuration management of requirements management and database tools, software design tools, configuration management tools, compilers, system build tools, and software performance testing and load testing tools.
Avoid giving elevated privileges to developers.
Références
REF-660
Supply Chain Attack Patterns: Framework and Catalog
Melinda Reed, John F. Miller, Paul Popick.
https://docplayer.net/13041016-Supply-chain-attack-patterns-framework-and-catalog.html REF-439
Supply Chain Attack Framework and Attack Patterns
John F. Miller.
http://www.mitre.org/sites/default/files/publications/supply-chain-attack-framework-14-0228.pdf REF-667
Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain to Compromise Multiple Global Victims With SUNBURST Backdoor
https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/12/evasive-attacker-leverages-solarwinds-supply-chain-compromises-with-sunburst-backdoor.html
Soumission
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