Of the 2.23 million package references contained in those samples, 440,445, or 19.7 percent, pointed to packages that didn’t exist. Among these 440,445 package hallucinations, 205,474 had unique ...

The researchers says they observed Zebo-0.1.0, and Cometlogger-0.1, two packages that masquerade as legitimate code, but hide harmful features behind complex logic and obfuscation.

The latest such campaign was uncovered by researchers from ReversingLabs and involves malicious code hidden in compiled Python files (PYC) that were part of a fake test project given to job ...

Python cannot handle two different versions of the same package which leads to “dependency hell”, causing entire installations to fail. The struggle is real. When a developer uses multiple package ...

To uninstall the Python package using PIP, you can run pip uninstall package_name, but it depends on whether you want to remove single package or all packages.

Conclusion PyPI continues to be abused by cyberattackers to compromise Python programmers’ devices. This campaign displays a variety of techniques being used to include malware in Python packages.

Three additional rogue Python packages have been discovered in the Package Index (PyPI) repository as part of an ongoing malicious software supply chain campaign called VMConnect, with signs pointing ...

A new malicious campaign has been found on the Python Package Index (PyPI) open-source repository involving 24 malicious packages that closely imitate three popular open-source tools: vConnector, ...

A malicious Python package uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) has been found to contain a fully-featured information stealer and remote access trojan. The package, named colourfool, was ...