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 ...

The disclosure comes as HelixGuard discovered a malicious package in PyPI named "spellcheckers" that claims to be a tool for ...

When you install Python packages into a given instance of Python, the default behavior is for the package’s files to be copied into the target installation. But sometimes you don’t want to copy the ...

All-in-one Python project management tool written in Rust aims to replace pip, venv, and more. Here's a first look. A few behaviors aren’t supported yet, but these should not interfere with your ...

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 ...

Someone has been slipping infostealers into Python code repositories since April 2023, stealing people’s sensitive information, login credentials, and cryptocurrency. A report from cybersecurity ...

I want to install some python libraries for development. My problem is that some of the ones in the Ubuntu repository are kind of outdated. Is there any way to use easy_install or a distutils setup.py ...

Another day, another malicious package being discovered on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository. Ax Sharma, a cybersecurity researcher from Sonatype, found a typosquatted version of the ...

Researchers have discovered yet another set of malicious packages in PyPi, the official and most popular repository for Python programs and code libraries. Those duped by the seemingly familiar ...