PyPI is popular among Python programmers for sharing and downloading code. Since anyone can contribute to the repository, malware – sometimes posing as legitimate, popular code libraries – can appear ...

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

Attackers continue to create fake Python packages and use rudimentary obfuscation techniques in an attempt to infect developers' systems with the W4SP Stealer, a Trojan designed to steal ...

The administrators of the Python Package Index (PyPI) have begun an effort to improve the hundreds of thousands of software packages that are listed. The attempt, which began earlier last year, is to ...

A new project from Read the Docs aims to automatically generate API documentation from code uploaded to the Python Package Index Read the Docs, a popular community-supported service for creating ...

Nearly five months after the Python Software Foundation finally ended support for the Python 2 programming language, many developers are continuing to use it, heightening security risks for their ...

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 ...

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