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 scanners tasked with weeding out malicious contributions to packages distributed via the popular open source code repository Python Package Index (PyPI) create a significant number of false alerts ...

A malicious campaign that researchers observed growing more complex over the past half year, has been planting on open-source platforms hundreds of info-stealing packages that counted about 75,000 ...

The open-source development ecosystem has experienced a significant rise in malicious software components, putting enterprises on high alert for software supply chain attacks. Malware is infiltrating ...

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 ...

A malicious Python package named 'fabrice' has been present in the Python Package Index (PyPI) since 2021, stealing Amazon Web Services credentials from unsuspecting developers. According to ...

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 ...

Open source application packages, including those in Python and JavaScript, have a vulnerability in their entry points that could be used by threat actors to execute malicious code to steal data, ...

Open source repositories are critical to running and writing modern applications, but beware — carelessness could detonate mines and inject backdoors and vulnerabilities in software infrastructures.

Open-source software components now often comprise at least 80 percent of modern software applications, according to the best available estimate. They run the web servers that allow you to read this ...

Researchers have uncovered yet another supply chain attack targeting an open source code repository, showing that the technique, which has gained wide use in the past few years, isn’t going away any ...