The 12 packages have been discovered in two separate scans by a security engineer who goes online by the name of Bertus, and have long been removed from PyPI before this article's publication.

It's not hard to write a Python package that can be installed into an interpreter or virtual environment with pip. This video shows a simple example of how to lay out a project's source code and ...

The Python Package Index (PyPI) has introduced new protections against domain resurrection attacks that enable hijacking ...

Tainting legitimate PyPI packages with malware is also a common occurrence. Many Python developers trust the platform, and use the code found there in various projects.

Six malicious packages on PyPI, the Python Package Index, were found installing information-stealing and RAT (remote access trojan) malware while using Cloudflare Tunnel to bypass firewall ...

The PyPI package flood is just the latest in a string of attacks on public repositories with the intent to plant malicious code.

Security researchers at ReversingLabs have discovered a novel attack that used compiled Python code to evade detection. According to ReversingLabs reverse engineer Karlo Zanki, this could be the first ...

PyPI malware termncolor and colorinal downloaded 884 times exploit DLL side-loading, persistence, and C2 communication.