It's a little snippet of Python code – 6KB – that strikes fast and nasty, taking less than three hours to complete from initial breach to encryption.

Operators of an unknown ransomware gang are using a Python script to encrypt virtual machines hosted on VMware ESXi servers. While the Python programming language is not commonly used in ...

Python scripts are harder to detect The attack is unique when compared to other Monero-mining botnets that have arisen in recent months, relying on Python scripts, rather than on malware binaries.

Stealing SSH and GPG keys. According to Martini, the malicious code was present only in the jeIlyfish library. The python3-dateutil package didn't contain malicious code of its own, but it did ...

The malicious Python libraries were caught stealing SSH and GPG keys. December 12, 2019. Up Next. Learn how to keep your data safe in a hybrid world ...

Script Kitty has actually been around for a while, but after receiving its 2.0 update last week, it's now a serious contender for one of those must-have apps (at least for anyone with an ssh ...