Despite the vigilance and quick action of Checkmarx and the Python Package Index to address the issue, the malware returned in early October and has reportedly been downloaded more than 3,700 ...

The Python Package Index, home to over 450,000 projects, plays a crucial role in the software supply chain, constituting an estimated 90% of code run in production. Forbes said the research ...

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.

Three malicious packages carrying infostealers were recently discovered, and subsequently removed, from the PyPI repository. Researchers from Fortinet found three packages, uploaded between ...

Python's ctx library and a fork of PHP's phpass have been compromised. 3 million users combined. The malicious code sends all the environment variables to a heroku app, likely to mine AWS credentials.

The latest case in point is a malicious package for distributing Cobalt Strike on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems, which was uploaded to the widely used Python Package Index (PyPI) registry for ...

The malicious package was available on PyPI, a package index widely used by Python developers. After being notified of it, PyPI's maintainers have removed the malicious package.