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 ...

A new malicious campaign has been found on the Python Package Index (PyPI) open-source repository involving 24 malicious packages that closely imitate three popular open-source tools: vConnector, ...

Two malicious versions of two Python packages were introduced in the Python Package Index (PyPI) with the purpose of stealing SSH and GPG keys from Python developers' projects. One of them, using ...

Modern Python developers use virtual environments (venvs), to keep their projects and dependencies separate. Managing project dependencies gets more complex as the number of dependencies grows.

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 ...

Several harmful Python .whl files containing a new type of malware called “Kekw” have been discovered on PyPI (Python Package Index). According to new data by Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs ...

A new package mimicked the popular 'requests' library on the Python Package Index (PyPI) to target macOS devices with the Sliver C2 adversary framework, used for gaining initial access to corporate ...

The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month. Each month, we examine ...

The official repository for the widely used Python programming language has been tainted with modified code packages, a computer security authority in Slovakia warned. The authority also said the ...

Pity the poor Python 3 programmers who chose the latest version of the language and found that many of their favorite libraries are only compatible with Python 2. Fortunately for them, more Python ...