Figure 5. In some packages, only lightly obfuscated code is present The next stages are Python packages, scripts, or binary files downloaded from either Dropbox or transfer.sh. Figure 6.

Security researchers found two packages on PyPI, showing malicious intent The packages grant the attackers access to systems and sensitive data The researchers warn developers to exercise caution when ...

There are additional benefits to obfuscation as well, including: Programs written in languages like C# and targeted at the managed environment of .Net emit an intermediate compiled code (MSIL ...

The researchers say that they starting seeing a pattern "within the Python ecosystem ... multi-layer obfuscation had been added to the packages. Base64 obfuscation in the code (Checkmarx) In ...