Researchers have discovered yet another set of malicious packages in PyPi, the official and most popular repository for Python programs and code libraries.Those duped by the seemingly familiar ...

This package, too, mimicked the name of a popular Python library, named "colorama." According to the PyPI Stats service , 54 users had downloaded the package a month before it was taken down.

The PyPI package flood is just the latest in a string of attacks on public repositories with the intent to plant malicious code. Over the weekend an attacker has been uploading thousands of ...

Security firm Checkmarx found that one in three software packages from PyPI contains a flaw that can lead to malicious code being automatically installed. Many software packages from the Python ...