Two fake spellchecker packages on PyPI hid a Python RAT in dictionary files, activating malware on import in version 1.2.0.

Python’s package ecosystem lets you leverage the work of millions of other Python developers with a simple pip install command. And Python’s virtual environments let you isolate projects and their ...

Python enhancement proposal would incorporate SBOM documents in Python packages as a way to improve dependency tracking and vulnerability analysis. Software bill-of-materials (SBOM) documents would be ...

A threat actor has been delivering a "relentless campaign" since early April to seed the software supply chain with hundreds of malicious Python packages aimed at stealing sensitive data and ...

Security researchers found two packages on PyPI, showing malicious intent The packages grant the attackers access to systems and sensitive data The researchers warn developers to exercise caution when ...

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 ...

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 ...

Do you want to uninstall the Python PIP package you installed sometime back but don’t know how? Sometimes, you may want to remove a package and its dependencies, because you no longer need it or ...

The number of attacks looking to compromise developer machines has exploded in recent years. There has been a barrage of malicious packages uploaded to public registries such as PyPi and npm, ...

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 ...