Old Python package comes back to life and delivers malicious payload Your email has been sent A recently spotted supply chain attack abused an old but legitimate Python package to deliver a malicious ...

In the latest supply chain attack, an unknown threat actor has created a malicious Python package that appears to be a software development kit (SDK) for a well-known security client from SentinelOne.

A security firm found three malicious Python libraries uploaded on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) that contained a hidden backdoor which would activate when the libraries were installed on ...

Open Source software is always trustworthy, right? [Bertus] broke a story about a malicious Python package called “Colourama”. When used, it secretly installs a VBscript that watches the system ...

Although there is nothing special about code executing on a machine, the moment when this code is executed is a significant detail from a security standpoint. The Python programming language allows ...

PyPI is the official Python Package Index that currently contains 500,972 projects, 5,228,535 million releases, 9,950,103 million files, and 770,841 users. PyPI helps users locate and install software ...

Public repositories of open source code are a critical part of the software supply chain that many organizations use to build applications. They are therefore an attractive target for adversaries ...

Sonatype researchers discovered malicious code in multiple Python packages that uploaded users’ Amazon Web Services (AWS) credentials and environment variables to a publicly exposed domain. Sonatype’s ...

Researchers at security vendor Checkmarx have uncovered an operation, apparently based in Iraq, that uses malware hosted on the Python repository PyPI to search for files on the victim's device and ...

The website for the popular JDownloader download manager was compromised earlier this week to distribute malicious Windows ...