The sophisticated malware has been upgraded to hide its source code in seemingly innocent images. Written by Charlie Osborne, Contributing Writer Aug. 7, 2019 at 3:00 a.m. PT ...

The vast majority of the packages found on public repositories such as npm for JavaScript, PyPI for Python, and RubyGems for Ruby consist of open-source code files that are packaged into archives.

Python for VS Code comes with the Python extension in the code editor's marketplace, which has been installed a whopping 30.3 million times, making it the most popular tool in the marketplace by far.

According to ReversingLabs reverse engineer Karlo Zanki, this could be the first instance of a supply chain attack capitalizing on the direct execution capability of Python byte code (PYC) files. The ...

Python interpreter limitations no pip support. no socket support. no support for native Python modules. no thread support. As a consequence there is no async support either. VS Code limitations no ...

However, the next day, a proof of concept exploit was shared on the XSS hacking forum explaining that a typo in the source code for Telegram for Windows could be exploited to send Python .pyzw ...