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 ...

Hackers are once again targeting Python developers involved in the blockchain industry in an attempt to distribute malware and steal tokens. A new report from cybersecurity researchers at Checkmarx ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ethical hacker Alex Birsan developed a way to inject malicious code into open-source developer tools to exploit dependencies in organizations internal applications. An ethical hacker has demonstrated ...

A nightly build version of a machine-learning framework dependency has been compromised. The package ran malicious code on affected systems and stole data from unsuspecting users. Image: ...

Python falls short in a few areas. For instance, Python isn’t the fastest language around, but third-party libraries like NumPy let you work around that. Where Python is most deficient, though, is ...