Researchers have discovered yet another set of malicious packages in PyPi, the official and most popular repository for Python programs and code libraries.Those duped by the seemingly familiar ...

According to Check Point, both of them would download and execute potentially malicious code during installation. An additional trio of malicious packages is mentioned by Check Point: Free-net-vpn, ...

The service will start out with a collection of around 500 Java and Python packages that Google uses, but it will be expanded in the future to cover other programming languages.

The hit programming language Python has climbed over once-dominant Java to become the second most popular language on Microsoft-owned open-source code-sharing site GitHub. Python now outranks Java ...