The Python Software Foundation has warned victims of a new wave of phishing attacks using a fake Python Package Index (PyPI) website to reset credentials. Accessible at pypi.org, PyPI is the default ...

A new project from Read the Docs aims to automatically generate API documentation from code uploaded to the Python Package Index Read the Docs, a popular community-supported service for creating ...

A new malicious package has been found on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that could hide code in images with a steganographic technique and infect users through open-source projects on ...

Python Package Index (PyPI), the official third-party open-source repository for Python projects, said it will enforce a mandatory two-factor authentication (2FA) policy for projects categorized as ...

Unknown attackers have compromised a package in the Python PyPI registry, injecting a malicious binary into it, the maintainers of the open source machine learning framework PyTorch are warning. The ...

The administrators of the Python Package Index (PyPI) have begun an effort to improve the hundreds of thousands of software packages that are listed. The attempt, which began earlier last year, is to ...

A malicious package that mimics the VMware vSphere connector module ‘vConnector’ was uploaded on the Python Package Index (PyPI) under the name ‘VMConnect,’ targeting IT professionals. VMware vSphere ...

News briefs for July 17, 2019. Malicious Python libraries have been found on the official Python Package Index (PyPI), which contain a hidden backdoor that would activate when installed on Linux ...

PyPI—the open source repository that both large and small organizations use to download code libraries—was hosting 11 malicious packages that were downloaded more than 41,000 times in one of the ...