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 ...

Furthermore, this package doesn’t even try to hide its true intentions, and instead is “openly malicious”. Despite being obvious malware, it still managed to rake in 37,217 downloads.

Hackers are once again targeting Python developers involved in the blockchain industry in an attempt to distribute malware and steal tokens. A new report from cybersecurity researchers at ...

Using Python’s index operator [] on a string with a -3 will grab the 3rd character from the end of the string, in this case '<built-in function oct>'[-3] will evaluate to 'c'.