A recently spotted supply chain attack abused an old but legitimate Python package to deliver a malicious payload. Read more on how the attacker managed to do it and how to protect yourself from it.

Open Source software is always trustworthy, right? [Bertus] broke a story about a malicious Python package called “Colourama”. When used, it secretly installs a VBscript that watches the system ...

A campaign active since last November has been targeting Python developers building Telegram bots with trojanized Pyrogram ...

In the latest supply chain attack, an unknown threat actor has created a malicious Python package that appears to be a software development kit (SDK) for a well-known security client from SentinelOne.

A security firm found three malicious Python libraries uploaded on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) that contained a hidden backdoor which would activate when the libraries were installed on ...

The Python security team removed two trojanized Python libraries from PyPI (Python Package Index) that were caught stealing SSH and GPG keys from the projects of infected developers. The two libraries ...

Although there is nothing special about code executing on a machine, the moment when this code is executed is a significant detail from a security standpoint. The Python programming language allows ...

As someone who uses Python for scientific computing, I can say that it is a miracle that this doesn't happen more often. I have checked the dependencies of some of the Python packages we use ...

Sonatype researchers discovered malicious code in multiple Python packages that uploaded users’ Amazon Web Services (AWS) credentials and environment variables to a publicly exposed domain. Sonatype’s ...

Public repositories of open source code are a critical part of the software supply chain that many organizations use to build applications. They are therefore an attractive target for adversaries ...