The Python Software Foundation warned users this week that threat actors are trying to steal their credentials in phishing attacks using a fake Python Package Index (PyPI) website. PyPI is a ...

Old Python package comes back to life and delivers malicious payload Your email has been sent A recently spotted supply chain attack abused an old but legitimate Python package to deliver a malicious ...

Researchers found three malicious PyPI packages, two targeting bitcoin developers, and one WooCommerce stores Two are designed to steal data, and the third to test for valid credit cards All three ...

Modern Python developers use virtual environments (venvs), to keep their projects and dependencies separate. Managing project dependencies gets more complex as the number of dependencies grows.

Security researchers found two packages on PyPI, showing malicious intent The packages grant the attackers access to systems and sensitive data The researchers warn developers to exercise caution when ...

Researchers at software supply chain management firm Sonatype have identified many malicious Python packages with ransomware scripts. In a blog post detailing their findings, Sonatype researcher Ax ...

Python falls short in a few areas. For instance, Python isn’t the fastest language around, but third-party libraries like NumPy let you work around that. Where Python is most deficient, though, is ...

Researchers at security vendor Checkmarx have uncovered an operation, apparently based in Iraq, that uses malware hosted on the Python repository PyPI to search for files on the victim's device and ...