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 ...

What are Python virtual environments? A virtual environment is a way to have multiple, parallel instances of the Python interpreter, each with different sets of packages and different configurations.

Databot is an experimental alternative to querychat that works with R or Python. And it’s now available as an add-on for the ...

Ando (2024) proposes a systematic approach, but a user-friendly package to implement it has not been developed. This paper addresses this gap by introducing a Python package, macroframe-forecast, that ...

Multiple malicious Python packages leaking sensitive user information have been uncovered by security experts. In a blog post, Sonatype security researcher Ax Sharma says the packages: loglib ...

Cybersecurity researchers recently discovered half a dozen typosquatting packages in the official PyPI repository of the Python programming languages that contained cryptomining malware. The ...

For the second time since March, a cybersecurity firm has discovered troubling malware software packages uploaded to the Python Package Index platform.

The official repository for the widely used Python programming language has been tainted with modified code packages, a computer security authority in Slovakia warned. The authority also said the ...

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