The Python Software Foundation warned users this week that threat actors are trying to steal their credentials in phishing ...

Using pip is the most conventional and best-supported way to package a Python application for re-use. Just take your application directory and outfit it with a setup.py file, which turns it into a ...

Furthermore, this package doesn’t even try to hide its true intentions, and instead is “openly malicious”. Despite being obvious malware, it still managed to rake in 37,217 downloads.

A recently spotted supply chain attack abused an old but legitimate Python package to deliver a malicious payload. Read more on how the attacker managed to do it and how to protect yourself from it.

Package installers and management tools — pip in the case of Python — have their own internal package selection logic when faced with two packages of the same name from two different defined ...

Using Python’s index operator [] on a string with a -3 will grab the 3rd character from the end of the string, in this case '<built-in function oct>'[-3] will evaluate to 'c'.