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 ...

This week, multiple malicious packages were caught in the PyPI repository for Python projects that turned developers' workstations into cryptomining machines. All malicious packages were published by ...

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 phishing campaign caught yesterday was seen targeting maintainers of Python packages published to the PyPI registry. Python packages 'exotel' and 'spam' are among hundreds seen laced with malware ...

Security researchers have discovered a simple and troubling way for attackers to distribute malicious payloads via the PyPI package repository. All that the technique involves is re-registering a ...

The Python code repository was infiltrated by malware bent on data exfiltration from developer apps and more. Three malicious packages hosted in the Python Package Index (PyPI) code repository have ...

Researchers have uncovered yet another supply chain attack targeting an open source code repository, showing that the technique, which has gained wide use in the past few years, isn’t going away any ...

Thousands of applications that have taken advantage of open source Python Package Index (PyPI) software packages may be at risk of hijacking and subversion by malicious actors, opening up the ...

A new malicious package has been found on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that could hide code in images with a steganographic technique and infect users through open-source projects on ...