Stranger Things concept of the “Upside Down” is a useful way to think about the risks lurking in the software we all rely on.

Two fake spellchecker packages on PyPI hid a Python RAT in dictionary files, activating malware on import in version 1.2.0.

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A newly uncovered malicious package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) has raised fresh concerns about the security of open source software repositories. The package, named “dbgpkg,” was discovered by ...

Chainguard Libraries for Python isn’t just another repository; it’s an index of Python dependencies engineered to be resistant to malware. The secret sauce? Building every single one securely from its ...

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A malicious PyPi package named 'automslc' has been downloaded over 100,000 times from the Python Package Index since 2019, abusing hard-coded credentials to pirate music from the Deezer streaming ...

Threat researchers have come across two malicious Python packages offered as resources for integrating the Chinese AI model DeepSeek into software projects. The malicious packages, named ‘deepseeek’ ...

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When attackers compromised Ultralytics YOLO, a popular real-time object detection machine-learning package for Python, most assumed the Python Package Index, or PyPI, must be the point of failure.