{"id":224721,"date":"2025-11-08T00:11:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T06:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/malicious-nuget-packages-drop-disruptive-time-bombs"},"modified":"2025-11-08T00:11:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T06:11:26","slug":"malicious-nuget-packages-drop-disruptive-time-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/malicious-nuget-packages-drop-disruptive-time-bombs","title":{"rendered":"Malicious NuGet packages drop disruptive \u2018time bombs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/malicious-nuget-packages-drop-disruptive-time-bombs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several malicious packages on NuGet have sabotage payloads scheduled to activate in 2027 and 2028, targeting database implementations and Siemens S7 industrial control devices.<\/p>\n<p>The embedded malicious code uses a probabilistic trigger, so it may or may not activate depending on a set of parameters on the infected device.<\/p>\n<p>NuGet is an open-source package manager and software distribution system, enabling developers to download and include ready-to-run. NET libraries for their projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several malicious packages on NuGet have sabotage payloads scheduled to activate in 2027 and 2028, targeting database implementations and Siemens S7 industrial control devices. The embedded malicious code uses a probabilistic trigger, so it may or may not activate depending on a set of parameters on the infected device. NuGet is an open-source package manager [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}