The scanners tasked with weeding out malicious contributions to packages distributed via the popular open source code repository Python Package Index (PyPI) create a significant number of false alerts ...

A software security engineer has identified 12 Python libraries uploaded on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) that contained malicious code. The 12 packages have been discovered in two separate ...

The Slovak National Security Office (NBU) has identified ten malicious Python libraries uploaded on PyPI — Python Package Index — the official third-party software repository for the Python ...

Security researchers from Check Point have spotted 10 malicious packages on Python Package Index (PyPI), the primary Python package index used by Python developers. The first of them was Ascii2text, a ...

PyPI is popular among Python programmers for sharing and downloading code. Since anyone can contribute to the repository, malware – sometimes posing as legitimate, popular code libraries – can appear ...

The PyPI package flood is just the latest in a string of attacks on public repositories with the intent to plant malicious code. Over the weekend an attacker has been uploading thousands of malicious ...

A dozen malicious Python packages were uploaded to the PyPi repository this weekend in a typosquatting attack that performs DDoS attacks on a Counter-Strike 1.6 server. Python Package Index (PyPi) is ...

Two Python packages claiming to integrate with popular chatbots actually transmit an infostealer to potentially thousands of victims. Publishing open source packages with malware hidden inside is a ...

The administrators of the Python Package Index (PyPI) have begun an effort to improve the hundreds of thousands of software packages that are listed. The attempt, which began earlier last year, is to ...