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 ...

Multiple malicious Python packages available on the PyPI repository were caught stealing sensitive information like AWS credentials and transmitting it to publicly exposed endpoints accessible by ...

The Python Software Foundation warned users this week that threat actors are trying to steal their credentials in phishing attacks using a fake Python Package Index (PyPI) website. PyPI is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a new twist on software supply chain attacks, researchers have discovered a Python package hiding malware inside of compiled code, allowing it to evade ordinary detection measures. On April 17, ...

A new software supply chain attack is being exploited in the wild, according to security researchers. The technique targets Python applications distributed via the Python Package Index, or PyPI.

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 ...

When attackers compromised Ultralytics YOLO, a popular real-time object detection machine-learning package for Python, most assumed the Python Package Index, or PyPI, must be the point of failure.