The scanners tasked with weeding out malicious contributions to packages distributed via the popular open source code repository Python Package Index (PyPI) create a significant number of false alerts ...

Security researchers found three malicious PyPI packages The packages had around 7,000 downloads They were designed to check for active email accounts Security researchers have found some of the tools ...

Thousands of applications that have taken advantage of open source Python Package Index (PyPI) software packages may be at risk of hijacking and subversion by malicious actors, opening up the ...

The Python Package Index (PyPI), run by the Python Software Foundation, has officially invalidated all the publishing tokens that were stolen in the GhostAction supply chain attack that happened ...

A new package mimicked the popular 'requests' library on the Python Package Index (PyPI) to target macOS devices with the Sliver C2 adversary framework, used for gaining initial access to corporate ...

The PyPI package flood is just the latest in a string of attacks on public repositories with the intent to plant malicious code. Over the weekend an attacker has been uploading thousands of malicious ...

Administrators of the Python Package Index (PyPI) have removed 10 malicious software code packages from the registry after a security vendor informed them about the issue. The incident is the latest ...

Security researchers at ReversingLabs have discovered a novel attack that used compiled Python code to evade detection. According to ReversingLabs reverse engineer Karlo Zanki, this could be the first ...

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A new malicious package has been found on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that could hide code in images with a steganographic technique and infect users through open-source projects on ...