A software security engineer has identified 12 Python libraries uploaded on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) that contained malicious code.

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 ...

Six malicious packages on PyPI, the Python Package Index, were found installing information-stealing and RAT (remote access trojan) malware while using Cloudflare Tunnel to bypass firewall ...

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.

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 ...

Read more on malicious PyPI packages: Researchers Uncover 7000 Malicious Open Source Packages ReversingLabs also said it reported the discovered package, fshec2, to the PyPI security team, who ...

On Friday, the Python Package Index (PyPI), the official repository of third-party open-source Python projects announced plans to mandate two-factor authentication requirement for maintainers of ...

PyPI malware termncolor and colorinal downloaded 884 times exploit DLL side-loading, persistence, and C2 communication.