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 ...

These malicious packages - deploying cyberespionage backdoors and targeting Windows and Linux systems - were found circulating via the PyPI repository. Security experts expect the problem to continue.

These code bombs lurk in the PyPI package repository, waiting to be inadvertently baked into software developers’ applications. A group of cryptominers was found to have infiltrated the Python Package ...