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 Slovak National Security Office (NBU) has identified ten malicious Python libraries uploaded on PyPI — Python Package Index — the official third-party software repository for the Python ...

Several harmful Python .whl files containing a new type of malware called “Kekw” have been discovered on PyPI (Python Package Index).. According to new data by Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (), ...

The Python Package Index, home to over 450,000 projects, plays a crucial role in the software supply chain, constituting an estimated 90% of code run in production. Forbes said the research ...

Using Python’s index operator [] on a string with a -3 will grab the 3rd character from the end of the string, in this case '<built-in function oct>'[-3] will evaluate to 'c'.