A phishing campaign caught yesterday was seen targeting maintainers of Python packages published to the PyPI registry. Python packages 'exotel' and 'spam' are among hundreds seen laced with malware ...

PyPI, the official third-party registry of open source Python packages has temporarily suspended new users from signing up, and new projects from being uploaded to the platform until further notice.

A security firm found three malicious Python libraries uploaded on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) that contained a hidden backdoor which would activate when the libraries were installed on ...

Following a temporary suspension of all new users and package uploads, the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository is back up and running. Many noted that the culprit was the flooding of the site with ...

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 ...