Zanki said it coincides with an increase in harmful submissions to the Python Package Index (PyPI). Read more on malicious PyPI packages: Researchers Uncover 7000 Malicious Open Source Packages ...

PyPI is popular among Python programmers for sharing and downloading code. Since anyone can contribute to the repository, malware – sometimes posing as legitimate, popular code libraries – can ...

Python modules are typically installed using a package manager called 'pip', which launches a 'setup.py' file that is made available by the developer of the package for installation purposes.

A software security engineer has identified 12 Python libraries uploaded on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) that contained malicious code. The 12 packages have been discovered in two ...

The Slovak National Security Office (NBU) has identified ten malicious Python libraries uploaded on PyPI — Python Package Index — the official third-party software repository for the Python ...

Three malicious packages hosted in the Python Package Index (PyPI) code repository have been uncovered, which collectively have more than 12,000 downloads – and presumably slithered into ...

Python comes with the pip package manager, for installing and managing third-party Python packages. As much as Python’s developers have expanded pip ’s powers over the years, it’s still limited.

The Python Package Index (PyPI), one of the world’s biggest repositories of Python code, is often abused to holst malicious code, or trick software developers into downloading and running ...

Using pip is the most conventional and best-supported way to package a Python application for re-use. Just take your application directory and outfit it with a setup.py file, which turns it into a ...