A threat actor has been delivering a "relentless campaign" since early April to seed the software supply chain with hundreds of malicious Python packages aimed at stealing sensitive data and ...

Astral's uv utility simplifies and speeds up working with Python virtual environments. But it has some other superpowers, too: it lets you run Python packages and programs without having to formally ...

In a new twist on software supply chain attacks, researchers have discovered a Python package hiding malware inside of compiled code, allowing it to evade ordinary detection measures. On April 17, ...

A security researcher and system administrator has developed a tool that can help users check for manifest mismatches in packages from the NPM JavaScript software registry. Last week, a former ...

The PyPI package flood is just the latest in a string of attacks on public repositories with the intent to plant malicious code. Over the weekend an attacker has been uploading thousands of malicious ...

Python enhancement proposal would incorporate SBOM documents in Python packages as a way to improve dependency tracking and vulnerability analysis. Software bill-of-materials (SBOM) documents would be ...

A malicious Python package named 'fabrice' has been present in the Python Package Index (PyPI) since 2021, stealing Amazon Web Services credentials from unsuspecting developers. According to ...

Thousands of applications that have taken advantage of open source Python Package Index (PyPI) software packages may be at risk of hijacking and subversion by malicious actors, opening up the ...

The number of attacks looking to compromise developer machines has exploded in recent years. There has been a barrage of malicious packages uploaded to public registries such as PyPi and npm, ...