A Python coding community is undergoing a software supply-chain attack, with threat actors targeting the 170,000-strong Top.gg GitHub organisation with malware. Top.gg began life as Discord Bots ...

With Chainguard Libraries for Python, Chainguard delivers malware protection for one of the most critical and vulnerable parts of the supply chain — the language dependencies that developers ...

For the study, the researchers ran 30 tests, 16 in the Python programming language and 14 in JavaScript, that generated 19,200 code samples per test, for a total of 576,000 code samples.

Threat actors are utilizing an attack called "Revival Hijack," where they register new PyPi projects using the names of previously deleted packages to conduct supply chain attacks.

Japanese cybersecurity officials warned that North Korea's infamous Lazarus Group hacking team recently waged a supply chain attack targeting the PyPI software repository for Python apps. Threat ...