Chimera-sandbox-extensions” exploit highlights rising risks of open-source package abuse, prompting calls for stricter ...

Attempts to reach PyPI officials for comment weren’t immediately successful. The package names mimicked those of popular packages and libraries such as Requests , Pillow , and Colorama .

According to the PyPI Stats service, 54 users had downloaded the package a month before it was taken down.The attacker's Bitcoin address contained the equivalent of only $40, with the last ...

The PyPI package flood is just the latest in a string of attacks on public repositories with the intent to plant malicious code. Over the weekend an attacker has been uploading thousands of ...

PyPI, npm flooded with cryptomining packages Researchers have caught at least 241 malicious npm and PyPI packages that drop cryptominers after infecting Linux machines.

The official Python software package repository, PyPI, is getting flooded with spam packages, as seen by BleepingComputer. These packages are named after different movies in a style that is ...

Security researchers found three malicious PyPI packages The packages had around 7,000 downloads They were designed to check for active email accounts Security researchers have found some of the ...

By Saturday morning, PyPI administrators had removed the top 20 most-downloaded packages posted by Bach and Böck. It wasn't clear if PyPI was preventing new packages from using those names.

The recent discovery of NP6HelperHttptest and NP6HelperHttper on PyPI exemplifies such tactics, exploiting similarities with legitimate NP6 packages – a marketing automation tool developed by ...