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 ...

Furthermore, this package doesn’t even try to hide its true intentions, and instead is “openly malicious”. Despite being obvious malware, it still managed to rake in 37,217 downloads.

Attackers who are targeting open-source package repositories like PyPI (Python Package Index) have devised a new technique for hiding their malicious code from security scanners, manual reviews ...

The malicious PyPi packages discovered by CheckPoint and outlined in a new report are: Ascii2text – Mimicking "art," a popular ASCII Art Library for Python, Ascii2text uses the same description ...

A security firm found three malicious Python libraries uploaded on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) that contained a hidden backdoor which would activate when the libraries were installed ...

The Cometlogger-0.1 script, on the other hand, comes with a different set of malicious behavior, such as dynamic file manipulation, webhook injection, infostealing, and anti-VM checks.

Figure 5. In some packages, only lightly obfuscated code is present The next stages are Python packages, scripts, or binary files downloaded from either Dropbox or transfer.sh. Persistence ...

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 ...

The 12 packages have been discovered in two separate scans by a security engineer who goes online by the name of Bertus, and have long been removed from PyPI before this article's publication.