DevPhish: Exploring Social Engineering in Software Supply Chain Attacks on Developers
<|reference_start|>DevPhish: Exploring Social Engineering in Software Supply Chain Attacks on Developers: The Software Supply Chain (SSC) has captured considerable attention from attackers seeking to infiltrate systems and undermine organizations. There is evidence indicating that adversaries utilize Social Engineering (SocE) techniques specifically aimed at software developers. That is, they interact with developers at critical steps in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), such as accessing Github repositories, incorporating code dependencies, and obtaining approval for Pull Requests (PR) to introduce malicious code. This paper aims to comprehensively explore the existing and emerging SocE tactics employed by adversaries to trick Software Engineers (SWEs) into delivering malicious software. By analyzing a diverse range of resources, which encompass established academic literature and real-world incidents, the paper systematically presents an overview of these manipulative strategies within the realm of the SSC. Such insights prove highly beneficial for threat modeling and security gap analysis.<|reference_end|>
@article{siadati2024devphish:,
    title={DevPhish: Exploring Social Engineering in Software Supply Chain Attacks
  on Developers},
    author={Hossein Siadati, Sima Jafarikhah, Elif Sahin, Terrence Brent
  Hernandez, Elijah Lorenzo Tripp, Denis Khryashchev, Amin Kharraz},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.18401},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2402.18401},
    primaryClass={cs.SE cs.CR}
}