PyPI is short for Python Package Index, and serves as a repository for Python software packages. It is a central hub where Python developers can upload, share, and install software libraries and ...

Package installers and management tools — pip in the case of Python — have their own internal package selection logic when faced with two packages of the same name from two different defined ...

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.

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'.

As the parent company of SiliconANGLE, theCUBE Network, theCUBE Research, CUBE365, theCUBE AI and theCUBE SuperStudios — such as those established in Silicon Valley and the New York Stock ...

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 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 ...

The packages, delivered via various usernames on GitHub, have been downloaded nearly 75,000 times already, researchers from Checkmarx revealed in a blog post this week. They also cast a wide net ...