Security researchers from ReversingLabs say they've discovered 725 Ruby libraries uploaded on the official RubyGems repository that contained malware meant to hijack users' clipboards

"There are very few protections out there for software developers to make sure that packages they install from these repositories are malware free," Tomislav Pericin, co-founder and chief software architect at threat Intelligence firm ReversingLabs

ReversingLabs said the typosquatted packages in question were uploaded to RubyGems between February 16 and February 25, and that most of them have been designed to secretly steal funds by redirecting cryptocurrency transactions to a wallet address under the attacker's control.

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