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 ...

These code bombs lurk in the PyPI package repository, waiting to be inadvertently baked into software developers’ applications. A group of cryptominers was found to have infiltrated the Python Package ...

A malicious campaign that researchers observed growing more complex over the past half year, has been planting on open-source platforms hundreds of info-stealing packages that counted about 75,000 ...

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 Package Index briefly suspended the creation of new projects on Thursday to mitigate threat activity involving a large-scale typosquatting campaign and hundreds of malicious python packages ...