The Slovak National Security Office (NBU) has identified ten malicious Python libraries uploaded on PyPI — Python Package Index — the official third-party software repository for the Python ...

This package, too, mimicked the name of a popular Python library, named "colorama." According to the PyPI Stats service, 54 users had downloaded the package a month before it was taken down.

Experts from Spectralops.io recently analyzed PyPI, a software repository for Python programmers, and found ten malicious packages on the platform.

Python's ctx library and a fork of PHP's phpass have been compromised. 3 million users combined. The malicious code sends all the environment variables to a heroku app, likely to mine AWS credentials.

Within minutes, the server reported the libraries were being installed. Results published here showed the packages were downloaded almost 7,000 over a two-day period.

Stealing SSH and GPG keys According to Martini, the malicious code was present only in the jeIlyfish library. The python3-dateutil package didn't contain malicious code of its own, but it did ...

The uv utility lets you run Python packages and libraries with one command and no setup. Here's the quick guide to running Python packages without installing them.

If you've read a fair amount of Python code, then you've probably seen this "__init__.py" file pop up quite a few times. It's especially common in larger Python projects. I'm going to breakdown ...