PyPI is the official Python Package Index that currently contains 500,972 projects, 5,228,535 million releases, 9,950,103 million files, and 770,841 users. PyPI helps users locate and install software ...

Python Package Index (PyPI), the official third-party open-source repository for Python projects, said it will enforce a mandatory two-factor authentication (2FA) policy for projects categorized as ...

Researchers have discovered malware peddlers advertising an info-stealer out in the open on the Python Package Index (PyPI) — the official, public repository for the Python programming language — with ...

The PyPi python package repository is being bombarded by a wave of information-stealing malware hiding inside malicious packages uploaded to the platform to steal software developers' data. The ...

A new software supply chain attack is being exploited in the wild, according to security researchers. The technique targets Python applications distributed via the Python Package Index, or PyPI.

This week, multiple malicious packages were caught in the PyPI repository for Python projects that turned developers' workstations into cryptomining machines. All malicious packages were published by ...

An apparently school-age hacker based in Verona, Italy, has become the latest to demonstrate why developers need to pay close attention to what they download from public code repositories these days.

Thousands of applications that have taken advantage of open source Python Package Index (PyPI) software packages may be at risk of hijacking and subversion by malicious actors, opening up the ...

Most of us don’t think twice about installing software or updates from a trusted developer. We scrutinize the source site carefully to make sure it’s legitimate, and then we let the code run on our ...

Counterfeit packages downloaded roughly 5,000 times from the official Python repository contained secret code that installed cryptomining software on infected machines, a security researcher has found ...

A nightly build version of a machine-learning framework dependency has been compromised. The package ran malicious code on affected systems and stole data from unsuspecting users. Image: ...