Barely a week has passed from the last attempt to hide a backdoor in a code library, and we have a new case today. This time around, the backdoor was found in a Python module, and not an npm ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once you know how to add and use a Python module, you will greatly extend the capabilities of the language. A Python module is an external class or set of functions that exist outside the main file of ...

Researchers found three malicious PyPI packages, two targeting bitcoin developers, and one WooCommerce stores Two are designed to steal data, and the third to test for valid credit cards All three ...

Public repositories of open source code are a critical part of the software supply chain that many organizations use to build applications. They are therefore an attractive target for adversaries ...

Quixote is a web application framework for Python programmers. It was primarily developed by Andrew Kuchling, Neil Schemenauer and myself (Greg Ward) at the MEMS Exchange, in order to make our real ...