This was not a case of stolen credentials, but rather of vulnerability exploitation.

A widely used open-source PyPI package, elementary-data, was compromised in a targeted attack that inserted infostealer malware via a GitHub Actions vulnerability. The malicious update, version 0.23.3 ...

The Slovak National Security Office (NBU) has identified ten malicious Python libraries uploaded on PyPI — Python Package Index — the official third-party software repository for the Python ...

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 ...

A software security engineer has identified 12 Python libraries uploaded on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) that contained malicious code. The 12 packages have been discovered in two separate ...

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 ...

Security firm Checkmarx found that one in three software packages from PyPI contains a flaw that can lead to malicious code being automatically installed. Many software packages from the Python ...