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.

When you compile a Python program with Nuitka, you pass the name of the entry-point module as a parameter to Nuitka, for example, nuitka main.py. When invoked like this, Nuitka will take in main ...

For example, four packages (diango, djago, dajngo, djanga) were misspellings of Django, the name of a very popular Python framework.

Microsoft Visual Studio, for example, has a GUI for Python’s pip package-management system, akin to the UI Anaconda provides for its own Conda package manager. IDG ...