In what's the latest instance of a software supply chain attack, unknown threat actors managed to compromise Toptal's GitHub ...

The package contained three files — two unexceptional source code files, and a third, more interesting file, "full.pyc." Within full.pyc was a method called "get_path," which, the researchers ...

The malicious package downloads an image from the Web, then uses a steganography module to extract and execute the code to download malware. Fahmida Y. Rashid, Managing Editor, Features, Dark Reading ...

A malicious Python package named 'fabrice' has been present in the Python Package Index (PyPI) since 2021, stealing Amazon Web Services credentials from unsuspecting developers.

The packages contained an __init__.py file that harboured malicious code, designed to search for files with the .py, .php,.zip, .png, .jpg and .jpeg extensions in the root and DCIM folders, and ...

The Python Package Index (PyPI) registry has removed three malicious Python packages aimed at exfiltrating environment variables and dropping trojans on the infected machines. These malicious ...

It’s not a bad idea for anyone who intended to download one of the legitimate packages targeted to double-check that they didn’t inadvertently obtain a malicious doppelganger.

Conclusion PyPI continues to be abused by cyberattackers to compromise Python programmers’ devices. This campaign displays a variety of techniques being used to include malware in Python packages.