Aikido Security, a cybersecurity company that investigates code vulnerabilities in cryptocurrency networks, announced on April 21 that XRPL includes a rear door that sends private keys to virtual attackers. The vulnerability is particularly seen in XRPL packages called NPM, a library for application developers.
The NPM XRPL package is an XRP Ledger network (a JavaScript/TypeScript library designed to interact with XRPL).)). According to the developer library website, NPM is a “recommended option” for integrating solutions, especially payment routes, decentralized exchanges, account settings, and multiple signatures, especially solutions with XRPL.
Currently, NPM is used to perform such a variety of functions in XRPL. Submit transactions to creating key management, funds, and test credentials, especially XRP accounting.
As a result, vulnerabilities discovered by Aikido Security Can be scaled along many XRPL applicationsrepresents a whole body risk.
According to the security company, the above is especially true as NPM is “an XRP ledger SDK (software development kit) with over 140,000 weekly discharges.” This weekly discharge figure is confirmed by the NMP website itself.
April 21st at 20:53 GMT, our system, Aikido Intel, warned us against five newer versions of the XRPL package. This is the official SDK for the XRP ledger, with over 140,000 weekly discharges. We’ll quickly see that the official XPRL (Ripple) NPM package has been compromised by a sophisticated attacker who can install a backdoor to steal private cryptocurrency keys and access the cryptocurrency wallet. The package is used by hundreds of thousands of applications and websites, making it a potentially catastrophic attack on the cryptocurrency ecosystem supply chain.
Aikido Security, a cybersecurity company.
Aikido Security indicates that the affected NPM version ranges from 4.2.1 to 4.2.4. If you are using an earlier version of the library, we recommend that you do not update the development package.
According to the company, a user called “Mukulljangid” has published five new versions of the NPM library, but these versions do not match the official release shown in the GitHub repository. The latest version is 4.2.0. For Aikido, “The fact that these packages were displayed without a version that supports GitHub is very suspicious.”
Similarly, the security company was detected in a new package via its code monitoring solution using the “strange” programming line from SO-Called Intel Aikido. Specifically, opcodes checkvalidityidityofseed and 0x9c(.)xyz domain.
Everything looks normal until the end. What is the zero in this feature check variet? And why call a random domain called 0x9c(.)xyz? Let’s go to the points!
Aikido Security, a cybersecurity company.
The above domains are questionable recent. Code function (“Public Builder””) Private wallet and xrpl.
Subsequent Aikido’s investigation into users who are clearly updating their libraries revealed: “The package was implemented by a Mukulljangid user. If you search for that username name on Google, you will get a LinkedIn profile that appears to be a legitimate employee of Ripple from July 2021 onwards.
Qualifications for internal employees of organizations and companies They are classic attack vectors for computer hackers.
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