Interestingly, in some cases the Python code in the source distribution differs from the built distribution. The former is clean, while the latter contains the malicious code.

Chainguard, the secure foundation for software development and deployment, today announced Chainguard Libraries for Python, an index of malware-resistant Python dependencies built securely from ...

A 15-year-old vulnerability in the open source Python programming language is still finding its way into live code, with the result that over 350,000 projects are at risk of potential supply chain ...

The vulnerability is in the Python tarfile package, in code that uses un-sanitized tarfile.extract() function or the built-in defaults of tarfile.extractall(). It is a path traversal bug that ...

"The ultimate goal is that the code YAPF produces is as good as the code that a programmer would write if they were following the style guide," Google's repo says. Microsoft, meanwhile, this month ...