Operators of an unknown ransomware gang are using a Python script to encrypt virtual machines hosted on VMware ESXi servers. While the Python programming language is not commonly used in ...

This code can be run from RAM, EEPROM, or even external storage like an SD card. Recently there was a supplemental compiler project that even takes Python code and compiles it into VM byte-code.

The Processing Engine is a lightweight Python VM embedded directly in InfluxDB. It brings intelligence closer to where the data lives, so you can do more, faster, without shipping it between services.

For their second milestone, which is scheduled for the second quarter of 2009, they hope to replace the Python virtual machine with a functionally-equivalent LLVM-based implementation.

Pyjion works by compiling Python virtual machine opcodes into assembly language by way of the .NET EE compiler. Benchmarks conducted by the project’s maintainers show that Pyjion is about two to ...