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 ...

The latest such campaign was uncovered by researchers from ReversingLabs and involves malicious code hidden in compiled Python files (PYC) that were part of a fake test project given to job ...

The access token belonged to the Python Software Foundation’s director of infrastructure and was accidentally included in a compiled binary file that was published as part of a container image ...

Exposed for months They added that they found the token inside a Docker container in a compiled Python file that was erroneously not cleaned up.

ReversingLabs also encountered malware hidden in compiled Python files in the latest activity observed. The malware code identified in the new campaign was contained in altered pyperclip and pyrebase ...

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