It's not hard to write a Python package that can be installed into an interpreter or virtual environment with pip. This video shows a simple example of how to lay out a project's source code and ...

A software security engineer has identified 12 Python libraries uploaded on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) that contained malicious code.

Libraries are collections of shared code. They're common in Python, where they're also called "modules," but they're also ...

The PyPI package flood is just the latest in a string of attacks on public repositories with the intent to plant malicious code.

Read more on malicious PyPI packages: Researchers Uncover 7000 Malicious Open Source Packages ReversingLabs also said it reported the discovered package, fshec2, to the PyPI security team, who ...

On Friday, the Python Package Index (PyPI), repository of open source Python projects announced plans to rollout two factor authentication for maintainers of "critical" projects. Although many ...

Latest attack on PyPI users shows crooks are only getting better The code found in the malicious packages closely resembled legit offerings.

Six malicious packages on PyPI, the Python Package Index, were found installing information-stealing and RAT (remote access trojan) malware while using Cloudflare Tunnel to bypass firewall ...