A software security engineer has identified 12 Python libraries uploaded on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) that contained malicious code. The 12 packages have been discovered in two ...

Python’s package manager, pip, favors a wheel when it’s available rather than a source distribution. As a result, the malicious one gets installed unless explicitly requested otherwise.

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 ...

A security firm found three malicious Python libraries uploaded on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) that contained a hidden backdoor which would activate when the libraries were installed ...

For that reason it formed the Python Packaging Working Group in 2016 to help direct the project and raise funds to help support the sustainable development and maintenance of PyPI.

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'.

The PyPI package flood is just the latest in a string of attacks on public repositories with the intent to plant malicious code. Topics Spotlight: Advancing IT Leadership ...

If, for instance, you’re using Python 3.12 on the air-gapped machine, you’ll need to run pip download using Python 3.12 on the networked machine. If you can’t do this, you can pass --python ...

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