Devs unknowingly use “malicious” modules snuck into official Python repository Code packages available in PyPI contained modified installation scripts.

In a blog post, Sonatype security researcher Ax Sharma says the packages: loglib-modules, pyg-modules, pygrata, pygrata-utils, and hkg-sol-utils, were exfiltrating people’s secrets, such as AWS ...

Researchers have unraveled a series of malicious Python packages in the official third-party software repository that are engineered to draw out AWS credentials and environment variables onto a ...