Zanki said it coincides with an increase in harmful submissions to the Python Package Index (PyPI ... “This obfuscation technique allows the compiled code to get past security scanners. Catching this ...

PyPI is popular among Python ... package downloads over the past year from PyPI using pip PyPI packages can take two forms: source packages, which contain all project source code and are built ...

A software security engineer has identified 12 Python libraries uploaded on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) that contained malicious code ... installers like "pip" execute automatically ...

The Slovak National Security Office (NBU) has identified ten malicious Python libraries uploaded on PyPI — Python ... developers to avoid using "pip" — a Python package installer — when ...

Using this method an attacker could place malicious code ... in package repositories. Last year, researchers discovered ten of them in PyPi, the official third-party store for Python programming ...

The PyPI package flood is just the latest in a string of attacks on public repositories with the intent to plant malicious code ... tools — pip in the case of Python — have their own internal ...

Adding to the insecurity, the widely used pip package management system (pictured above), which most Python ... code when a package is installed. Böck said the PyPI is currently blocking use ...