{"id":1024819,"date":"2026-07-30T09:15:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024819"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:57:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:27:38","slug":"malicious-software-attacks-surge-75-fold-in-two-years-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/30\/malicious-software-attacks-surge-75-fold-in-two-years-says-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Malicious software attacks surge 75-fold in two years, says report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: Cyberattacks using malicious software packages have increased 75-fold over the past two years, with nearly half now masquerading as trusted software, according to a report by software supply chain security firm Sonatype. The study warns that attackers are increasingly targeting developers and AI-assisted software development before code reaches production. <\/p>\n<p>The findings, based on 9,747 verified malicious package advisories between January 2020 and May this year, were presented by Sonatype India Country Head Abhishek Chauhan and Forrester analyst Ashutosh Sharma on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: Cyberattacks using malicious software packages have increased 75-fold over the past two years, with nearly half now masquerading as trusted software, according to a report by software supply chain security firm Sonatype. The study warns that attackers are increasingly targeting developers and AI-assisted software development before code reaches production. The findings, based on 9,747 verified malicious package advisories between January 2020 and May this year, were presented by Sonatype India Country Head Abhishek Chauhan and Forrester analyst Ashutosh Sharma on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024851,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024819\/revisions\/1024851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}