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 ...

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 ...

Image: ReversingLabs 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 ...

The setup.py file in the malicious PyPI packages used in this attack contained a payload encoded in base64 for obfuscation, which involved the execution of a PowerShell command on Windows systems.

Latest attack on PyPI users shows crooks are only getting better The code found in the malicious packages closely resembled legit offerings.