The virus when executed scans and infects any .pyc Python files it found. and displays the message "you have been exploited". The malware worked by interleaving viral code into binary code ...

When done, it will create a alert.jpg file from a base64 encoded string contained in the python script and save it to the same location that the ransomware was executed from. This alert.jpg will ...

Researchers at software supply chain management firm Sonatype have identified many malicious Python packages with ransomware scripts. In a blog post detailing their findings, Sonatype researcher ...

and Python (PY) scripting languages. "Code Insight has broadened its support for script formats, moving beyond PowerShell to offer analysis for a variety of scripting languages," VirusTotal ...