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 ...

Researchers have come across a rather odd Python code package online that aims to steal Google Cloud Platform credentials from a very limited set of macOS victims. The package, "lr-utils-lib," was ...

Google has detailed some of the work done to find malicious code packages that have been sneaked into bigger open-source software projects. The Package Analysis Project is one of the software supply ...

Modern Python developers use virtual environments (venvs), to keep their projects and dependencies separate. Managing project dependencies gets more complex as the number of dependencies grows.

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 ...

Do you have a Python application you want to give to the world, or at least your teammates? Here are six ways to package Python applications for distribution. Python’s explosive growth over the last ...

Threat analysts have discovered ten malicious Python packages on the PyPI repository, used to infect developer's systems with password-stealing malware. The fake packages used typosquatting to ...

Do you want to uninstall the Python PIP package you installed sometime back but don’t know how? Sometimes, you may want to remove a package and its dependencies, because you no longer need it or ...