Threat analysts have discovered ten malicious Python packages on the PyPI repository, used to infect developer's systems with password-stealing malware. The fake packages used typosquatting to ...

The Python Package Index (PyPI) registry has removed three malicious Python packages aimed at exfiltrating environment variables and dropping trojans on the infected machines. These malicious ...

Administrators of the Python Package Index (PyPI) have removed 10 malicious software code packages from the registry after a security vendor informed them about the issue.

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 ...

The conda package manager, created specifically for Anaconda, handles installing both Python packages and third-party, external software requirements. Anaconda Python’s limitations.

Furthermore, this package doesn’t even try to hide its true intentions, and instead is “openly malicious”. Despite being obvious malware , it still managed to rake in 37,217 downloads. Are ...

These spam packages use a naming style that is commonly associated with torrents and other pirated content online where each package's name contains the title of a movie, the current year and the ...

But a recently developed package management tool, PDM — short for Python Development Master — lets you install packages to a project using the PEP 582 storage guidelines.

An old Python package named “ctx,” not updated since 2014, suddenly came back to life with new updates. But as discovered by Yee Ching Tok, ISC Handler at the SANS.edu Internet Storm Center, ...