Over 450 malicious PyPI python packages were found installing malicious browser extensions to hijack cryptocurrency transactions made through browser-based crypto wallets and websites. This discovery ...

A threat actor has uploaded to the PyPI (Python Package Index) repository three malicious packages that carry code to drop info-stealing malware on developers' systems. The malicious packages, ...

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, ...

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 ...

It's not hard to write a Python package that can be installed into an interpreter or virtual environment with pip. This video shows a simple example of how to lay out a project's source code and set ...

Newly discovered campaign takes advantage of the fact that most vulnerability scanning tools don't read compiled open-source software. Attackers who are targeting open-source package repositories like ...

Check Point Research has detected a malicious open source code package that uses steganography to hide malicious code inside image files. The malicious package was available on PyPI, a package index ...

Security researchers from Check Point have spotted 10 malicious packages on Python Package Index (PyPI), the primary Python package index used by Python developers. The first of them was Ascii2text, a ...