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 ...

In 2024, cybersecurity experts started to warn of a new threat to the software supply chain. Named 'slopsquatting', it is a ...

More than 400 malicious packages were recently uploaded to PyPI (Python Package Index), the official code repository for the Python programming language, in the latest indication that the ...

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 ...

The researchers says they observed Zebo-0.1.0, and Cometlogger-0.1, two packages that masquerade as legitimate code, but hide harmful features behind complex logic and obfuscation.

For the Python questions, out of 227 questions, over a third of the answers consisted of hallucinated code packages, 80 packages that did not exist. Actually, the total amounts of unpublished ...

According to ReversingLabs, the code is identical to that observed in the samples from a campaign detected in August 2023 and which involved fake packages uploaded to PyPI impersonating popular ...

The package, "lr-utils-lib," was uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPi) early in June, and conceals its malicious code in the setup file, Checkmarx explained in a blog post on July 26 ...