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 ...

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 ...

A malicious Python package named 'fabrice' has been present in the Python Package Index (PyPI) since 2021, stealing Amazon Web Services credentials from unsuspecting developers.

The package contained three files — two unexceptional source code files, and a third, more interesting file, "full.pyc." Within full.pyc was a method called "get_path," which, the researchers ...

Flooding public package repositories with malicious packages is not entirely new. Last year researchers detected a group of 186 packages from the same account on the JavaScript npm repository that ...

Personally, once I encountered these types of attacks, I started double checking every Python package I use. Sometimes I even download it and manually observe its code prior to installing it.” ...

From January to October last year, 1,493 malicious packages were uploaded to PyPI, and 6,977 malicious packages were uploaded to NPM. Last September, PyPI supply chain attacks escalated.