Like the seven packages that preceded it, pyobfgood posed as a legitimate obfuscation tool ... the tools targeted Python developers with reason to keep their code secret because it had hidden ...

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 ...