Researchers found three malicious PyPI packages, two targeting bitcoin ... They claim to be a fix for a legitimate Python module named “bitcoinlib”, which contains features for creating ...

Chainguard Libraries for Python isn't just another repository; it’s an index of Python dependencies engineered to be resistant to malware.

given the widespread use of Python. In March, North Korean hacking group Lazarus was found to have uploaded malicious packages to the repository. In 2022, compromised versions of ctx, a module ...

Similarly, the higher hallucination rate for JavaScript packages compared to Python is also difficult to attribute definitively. We speculate that it stems from the fact that JavaScript has ...