A whitepaper sounds the alarm on threats hidden as Python "phantom dependencies" and offers a solution with the PEP 770 ...

A new malicious campaign has been found on the Python Package Index (PyPI) open-source repository involving 24 malicious packages that closely imitate three popular open-source tools: vConnector, ...

Multiple code packages were uploaded to the Python Package Index, often abbreviated as PyPI, and were subsequently incorporated into software multiple times from June through this month, Slovakia ...

The malicious code was intended for use with Python 2.x, and it generated errors when used in Python 3.x applications. This is how users discovered its presence while debugging their apps.

Cython generates the second kind of module: C libraries that talk to Python’s internals, and that can be bundled with existing Python code. Cython code looks a lot like Python code, by design.