These malicious packages are estimated to have generated over 10,000 downloads and mirrors put together, according to the researchers' report. Large scale static analysis led to a malicious discovery ...

Security researchers found three malicious PyPI packages The packages had around 7,000 downloads They were designed to check ...

Researchers found three malicious PyPI packages ... which cumulatively have around 2,000 downloads. They claim to be a fix for a legitimate Python module named “bitcoinlib”, which contains ...

An earlier example of malicious software packages was uploaded to the Python ... from images and was primarily spread through text message links, which prompted unsuspecting users to download ...

the official and most popular repository for Python programs and code libraries. Those duped by the seemingly familiar packages could be subject to malware downloads or theft of user credentials ...

As an open source solution, YOLO11 was also available for download on PyPI, one of the world’s biggest Python package repositories. There, an unidentified threat actor recently broke into the ...

A malicious Python ... the package has been downloaded more than 37,000 times and executes platform-specific scripts for Windows and Linux. The large number of downloads is accounted by fabrice ...