Three malicious packages hosted in the Python Package Index (PyPI) code repository have been uncovered, which collectively have more than 12,000 downloads – and presumably slithered into ...

The Python Package Index (PyPI) registry has removed three malicious Python packages aimed at exfiltrating environment variables and dropping trojans on the infected machines. These malicious ...

More than 400 malicious packages were recently uploaded to PyPI (Python Package Index), the official code repository for the Python programming language, in the latest indication that the ...

Pyg-utils, Pymocks, PyProto2 – All three packages target AWS credentials and appear very similar to another set of packages discovered by Sonatype in June. The first even connects to the same ...

While code repositories of all kinds are under attack, overall, the npm ecosystem has suffered more malicious attention than the Python Package Index.

More than 300 users were tricked into downloading the malicious package, thinking it was the legitimate code, before researchers at Sonatype discovered the issue and reported it to the PyPI registry.

Security researchers at ReversingLabs have discovered a novel attack that used compiled Python code to evade detection. According to ReversingLabs reverse engineer Karlo Zanki, this could be the first ...