Attackers who are targeting open-source package repositories like PyPI (Python Package Index) have devised a new technique for hiding their malicious code from security scanners, manual reviews ...

Python's Unicode support can be easily abused to hide malicious string matches, making code appear innocuous while still performing malicious behavior.

According to ReversingLabs reverse engineer Karlo Zanki, this could be the first instance of a supply chain attack capitalizing on the direct execution capability of Python byte code (PYC) files. The ...

A vulnerability in the Python programming language that has been overlooked for 15 years is now back in the spotlight as it likely affects more than 350,000 open-source repositories and can lead ...