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 ...

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 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, ...

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 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 ...

The Python Package Index (PyPI) registry has removed three malicious Python packages aimed at exfiltrating environment variables and dropping trojans on the infected machines. These malicious packages ...

Two Python packages claiming to integrate with popular chatbots actually transmit an infostealer to potentially thousands of victims. Publishing open source packages with malware hidden inside is a ...

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.