Large Language Models (LLMs) have a serious “package hallucination” problem that could lead to a wave of maliciously-coded packages in the supply chain, researchers have discovered in one of ...

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.

The Python Package Index (PyPI) registry has removed three malicious Python packages aimed at exfiltrating environment variables and dropping trojans on the infected machines. These malicious ...

From the analysis of 16 code-generation models, including GPT-4, GPT-3.5, CodeLlama, DeepSeek, and Mistral, researchers observed approximately a fifth of the packages recommended to be fakes.

Flooding public package repositories with malicious packages is not entirely new. Last year researchers detected a group of 186 packages from the same account on the JavaScript npm repository that ...