Typosquatting 2018 Incident #23

colourama

Estimated Financial Impact
Bitcoin clipboard hijacking
Blast Radius
British spelling variant of colorama

What Happened

A typosquat of the popular colorama package using the British spelling "colourama." The package installed a cryptocurrency clipboard hijacker that swapped Bitcoin wallet addresses at transaction time.

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Risk Guard: Caught

PACKAGE_NAME_MISMATCH detects naming deviation from legitimate package

Risk Guard Check Codes That Flag This Incident

PACKAGE_NAME_MISMATCH

How Every Tool Performed

3 Caught 0 Partial 3 Missed
Tool Verdict Details
OSS Risk Guard Caught PACKAGE_NAME_MISMATCH detects naming deviation from legitimate package
Socket Caught Typosquatting detection across ecosystems
Snyk Missed No typosquatting detection
Sonatype (Nexus) Caught Nexus Firewall typosquatting detection
Black Duck Missed No typosquatting detection
Endor Labs Missed No typosquatting detection
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