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 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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Developers who published projects on PyPI with their email in package metadata are being targeted ...

It's not hard to write a Python package that can be installed into an interpreter or virtual environment with pip. This video shows a simple example of how to lay out a project's source code and set ...

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 ...

Six malicious packages on PyPI, the Python Package Index, were found installing information-stealing and RAT (remote access trojan) malware while using Cloudflare Tunnel to bypass firewall ...

Anthropic is planning to invest $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation (PSF) to support security in the Python ...

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 targeting of ...