Malicious Python packages are stealing vital data, and have been downloaded thousands of times already. Instagram and TikTok accounts are being stolen using malicious PyPI packages.

Multiple open source software packages on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository were found to be malicious, likely compromising thousands of devices, experts have warned.

Several harmful Python .whl files containing a new type of malware called “Kekw” have been discovered on PyPI (Python Package Index).. According to new data by Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (), ...

Malicious Python packages are stealing vital data, and have been downloaded thousands of times already; Misspelled a site's name? Cybercriminals are exploiting this to infect your computer with ...

This package, too, mimicked the name of a popular Python library, named "colorama." According to the PyPI Stats service , 54 users had downloaded the package a month before it was taken down.

A new report out today from Fortinet Inc.’s FortiGuard Labs is warning of two newly discovered malicious Python packages that pose a high risk of credential theft, data exfiltration and ...

Anaconda’s package management system, Conda, shown here in its GUI version, manages both Python packages and any dependencies they have outside of Python’s ecosystem. How Anaconda makes data ...

This is far from the first time that malicious packages have been found on PyPI, which is a popular target for supply chain attacks, given the widespread use of Python.

Software bill-of-materials (SBOM) documents would be used in Python packages as a means to improve their “measurability” and to address the problem of “phantom dependencies” in Python ...