PyPI is popular among Python programmers for sharing and downloading code. Since anyone can contribute to the repository, malware – sometimes posing as legitimate, popular code libraries – can appear ...

Check Point Research has detected a malicious open source code package that uses steganography to hide malicious code inside image files. The malicious package was available on PyPI, a package index ...

Python enhancement proposal would incorporate SBOM documents in Python packages as a way to improve dependency tracking and vulnerability analysis. Software bill-of-materials (SBOM) documents would be ...

A threat actor has been delivering a "relentless campaign" since early April to seed the software supply chain with hundreds of malicious Python packages aimed at stealing sensitive data and ...

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 malicious ...

Python’s packaging ecosystem is under growing strain as development teams move away from pip in production environments, citing performance bottlenecks, fragile dependency resolution and rising ...