Researchers at the Checkmarx cybersecurity firm sounded the alarm on a dangerous form of malware uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) — a platform for Python developers to download and ...

Attackers uploaded fake Python packages to PyPI that posed as Bitcoinlib tools and targeted wallet data. The malware infected crypto development environments, stole private keys and seed phrases ...

Threat actors building Python malware are getting better, and their payloads harder to detect, researchers have claimed. Analyzing a recently-detected malicious payload, JFrog reported how the ...

Visual Studio Code extensions have been identified exploiting a loophole that allows reuse of names from removed packages ...

The growing threat of malware in the Python ecosystem Today, more than half of the world's developers rely on Python, a programming language that has become the foundation of modern AI and machine ...

These malicious packages - deploying cyberespionage backdoors and targeting Windows and Linux systems - were found circulating via the PyPI repository. Security experts expect the problem to continue.

The Python Software Foundation (PSF), in association with tools vendor JetBrains, has published the eighth Python Developer ...

Cybersecurity researchers recently discovered half a dozen typosquatting packages in the official PyPI repository of the Python programming languages that contained cryptomining malware. The ...

A new malware attack is targeting Mac computers with a Python-based backdoor Trojan. And Windows computers aren’t getting away scott free either.

Chainguard, the secure foundation for software development and deployment, today announced Chainguard Libraries for Python, an index of malware-resistant Python dependencies built securely from ...